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Own. — To speak to a drag. 



Pack. — A number of hounds, usually from 10 to 20 

 couples, kept for Otter-hunting. 



Pad. — The foot of the Otter. 



Padding. — Sometimes used for Seal and Spur 

 {q.v.). 



Passed. — When hounds carry the drag beyond the 

 place at which the Otter is laid-up. 



Pelt (anciently Pyles). — The skin of an Otter. 



Put-down. — To drive an Otter to water. 



Rattle. — The note sounded on the horn at the 

 '' worry." 



Ream. — Scent coming down on the water when an 

 Otter has " moved." 



Recover. — To find the drag or Otter after losing 

 it for a time. 



Ring. — Otters will sometimes land and run a ring 

 through undergrowth back to the water. 



Riot. — When Otter-hounds speak to or run deer, 

 fox, hare, rabbits, water-voles, or moorhens 

 they are said to riot. (N.B. — No hound can, 

 apparently, withstand the temptation to hunt 

 the scent of a Muscovy duck.) 



Rough. — An Otter is said to be '' lying rough " 

 when found away from the stream in a hedge- 

 row^ among undergrowth, brushwood, faggots, 

 &c. 



