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over the canal is by the lock gate, a couple 

 of hundred yards or so above, and there is a 

 pell-mell rush of some of the over-eager 

 followers, but they were a wee bit too 

 previous. Sultan, Vestal, Clinker, and 

 Senator must have also viewed the otter, 

 for they swam across, and hitting the trail 

 in the rushes, stuck so closely to him, that 

 the wily one doubles back to the stream he 

 had just vacated, and entering it and dis- 

 daining the rolling insecurity of the barge, 

 he made towards the river, but the Master, 

 not wishing him into the big and heavy 

 water of the pool again, requested some 

 willing hands to hurry quickly down and 

 man the brook across to prevent the otter 

 reaching the river. 



I really am compelled to recount an 

 amusing and ludicrous episode that now 

 occurred. One of the stops told off to line 

 the stream was energetically and grandilo- 



