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for more than ten hours. Poor Mart was lifted out 

 almost lifeless, and never recovered her assailant's 

 bites ; Pincher lost his nose, and his frontispiece 

 was for ever marked ; while little Wasp seemed to 

 have escaped with few scars. Rydal Head and 

 Helvellyn have been the scenes of many a joyous 

 hunting day after marten cat and foulmart. 



" I brought down to North Devon a pup of 

 Wasp's ; she did not disgrace the courage of her 

 progenitors. Many an otter has she tackled on 

 the river Taw, and on my fishing excursions my 

 faithful companion has roused me by her fighting 

 an otter under the banks. After a time otter 

 and terrier would bolt into the river, Vic holding 

 on and going under water with the otter until 

 breath failed. I regret to say that old age has 

 told its tale, and she has departed a game and 

 faithful companion for fourteen years. 



" The Elterwater terriers had plenty of go in 

 them, and no shaking or trembling at your heels, 

 in frost and snow, like so many of the terriers of the 

 present day." 



Of course, masters of otter hounds continue to 

 keep hard cross-bred terriers, for it is a fact that 

 a majority of the fashionably bred ones cannot 

 stand hard, wet work and kennel living. Mr. 

 Carrick, when master of the Carlisle pack, had that 



