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left after a goodly supper. To-day he will be quietly 

 sleeping off his surfeit in some out-of-the-way lair, known 

 only to himself, and not even to the vigilant keeper who 

 prowls around day after day, ever hopeful, but always dis- 

 appointed the otter does not intend to make known his 



secret hiding-place. Many water voles and shrews hold high 

 jinks among the 'cuts' and 'decks' by the margins of the 

 larger lakes. The voles feast upon the luscious grasses that 

 spring up from the ooze below the shallows, and any dead 

 fish, flung aside maybe by an angler, or dropped even by 

 a startled heron, is acceptable. He will devour a roach 

 right to its backbone, and without a doubt likes a garnishing 

 of many an insect 



