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also. All the afternoon, for four hours or more, 

 was the poor creature attacked and worried by over 

 two dozen terriers of all degrees and sizes, many of 

 them with a good dash of bulldog blood in them, 

 and 3olb. weight each, or more. In the end the 

 gamest dogs were placed hors de combat , and the 

 otter was recaptured, evidently no worse for the 

 punishment he must have received. Being present 

 at this, and also having repeatedly seen a pack 

 of hounds in a meadow worrying an Cotter for 

 five minutes, the latter all the time working 

 towards the stream, and eventually escaping, are, 

 I think, sufficient reasons for doubting the powers 

 of a dozen, or even two or three dozen, Sealy Ham 

 or any other terriers Irish, Dandies, and Scotch 

 thrown in to kill an otter by their own powers, 

 and without the unfair assistance of poles and 

 sticks, nets and big stones. 



Writing on the above strain of terriers reminds me 

 of a peculiar episode Captain Medwyn mentions in 

 his " Angler in Wales " (1834), an amusing book 

 and interesting, especially as the gallant captain and 

 his friends were well acquainted with Byron and 

 Shelley during the time they resided in Greece and 

 Italy. The heroes are Vixen and Viper, called 

 Scotch terriers, but almost all terriers were Scotch 

 in those days ; perhaps they might have been Sealy 



