70 Otters and Otter-Hunting. 



used by Masters of foot-beagles, which can be 

 sounded by a breath. Either can be slipped into 

 a jacket pocket or between two pieces of elastic 

 sewn inside the coat so that the mouth protrudes 

 from between the buttons. In either case it is well 

 to have it attached by a cord, or it may slide into 

 the water and prove irrecoverable. The only other 

 weapon the Master need carry is a good hunting- 

 knife in a sheath, with which to dismember the 

 trophies. This should be suspended under the 

 left armpit, and have a spring in the case to prevent 



Fig. 4. Kbhler Reed-horn. 



it from falling out. No M.O.H. should let 

 his hounds see him with a whip in his hands. 

 The Secretary or one of the staff should always 

 carry a salmon-balance, weighing from lolb. up 

 to 3olb. by Jib., so as to record the weight of 

 each Otter killed. The paid kennelman and 

 whipper-in and the amateur whippers-in will carry 

 whips : ordinary hunting-crops with thongs in brown 

 (not white) leather will do, but the shank of the 

 crop need not be more than two-thirds the length 

 of a crop used mounted. The paid man should 



