30 Otters and Otter-Hunting. 



of fiction alike, a neglect which, with the increasing 

 popularity of the sport, may possibly be remedied in 

 the near future. Indeed, recent drawings in Punch 

 by Mr. Raven Hill, and an account in a new 

 novel, '' The Shadow of the Unseen," by Messrs. 

 Barry Pain and James Blyth, of two Otters 

 discovered fighting on the ice near St. Olaves, 

 in Suffolk — an incident illustrating a point in the 

 story, but which was actually observed — seem to 

 promise this. Mr. W. E. Norris also describes a 

 Devonshire Otter-hunt in his latest novel, '' The 

 Square Peg." 



Meanwhile, we have presented to us weekly in the 

 illustrated Press during the summer months many 

 very excellent photographs of Otter-hunting scenes, 

 taken by such talented amateurs as Mr. W. J. Abrey, 

 of Tonbridge, and other experts with the camera. 



