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MORE ABOUT THE OTTER 
' I WAS looking out for you to pass ; come in and see 
what I have to show you.' 
So spake one of my friends. Going to an out- 
house, he brought from it a fine dog otter, dead, of 
course. ' Look him over at your leisure,' added he. 
This I at once proceeded to do, with mixed feelings 
of pleasure and regret ; glad to be able to examine 
once more, minutely, one of the most perfect of 
animal mechanisms ever fashioned by the great 
Creator, but grieved that this brave, beautiful creature 
should have been shot. 
I may as well at once state that my opportunities 
for studying the otter have been few and far between. 
I have, perhaps, only seen the animal five times in 
the whole course of my life, fully and properly that 
is, though I have been looking out for him for over 
forty years. But I can assure my readers that these 
opportunities have been made the very most of. 
A born naturalist is always on the alert. A few 
