UNDER GENIAL SKIES 



and pulling them down. I do not hear their 

 barking in the early part of the night, but long 

 before morning their half -muffled baying begins. 

 Old fishermen tell me that they retire for the night 

 to the broad belts of kelp that lie a hundred yards 

 or more out to sea. Doubtless the beds of kelp 

 also afford them some protection from their ene- 

 mies. The fishermen feel very bitter toward them 

 on account of the fish they devour, and kill them 

 whenever opportunity offers. Often when I lie 

 half asleep in the small hours of the morning, I 

 seem to see these amphibian hounds pursuing their 

 quarry on the unstable hills and mountains of the 

 sea, and giving tongue at short intervals, as did 

 the foxhounds I heard on the Catskills in my 

 youth. 



