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of her opposers, arid escaped. The confusion occasioned 

 by this extraordinary proceeding, favoured the deliverance 

 of the fawn, who, profiting by the accident, galloped off 

 unhurt, and, with the dam, succeeded in regaining their native 

 wilds. 



The whole of the dramatis persona, with the exception of 

 the otter-killer and myself, have gone off to fish some three or 

 four lakes, situate in a hollow in the mountains, and which 

 are said to be remarkable for the number and flavour of their 

 trouts. I have been prevented by an accident from accom- 

 panying the party ; and though my wound be " not so deep 

 as a well, nor so wide as a church-door," it still renders me Jwrs 

 de combat. I blistered, or rather neglected a blistered heel : 

 and the fag of yesterday has so excoriated the surface, as to 

 make it imperative upon me to lie by for a little. Antony 

 engages to effect a perfect cure by to-morrow ; and here I 

 remain t&e-a-tdte with the otter-killer. 



The old man proceeded skilfully enough ; he lanced the 



