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Dub. As the otter was passing liim, lie took the 

 liberty of putting his spear into the otter's flank. 

 The otter at once retaliated by seizing Tom by 

 the leg, in which he made his teeth meet, and 

 took a piece clean out of his trousers as big as a 

 five shilling piece. Tom, hallooing as loud as he 

 •could, "Be quick ; be quick ! he's worrying me," 

 stuck to the otter ; and the otter stuck to Tom, 

 xintil the hounds came up, when Mr. Otter 

 •quickly let go and was soon dispatched. This 

 proved to be a very large dog otter. For a long 

 time afterwards, Tom was proud of showing his 

 leg, as well as his trousers. 



The longest otter hunt I ever witnessed was with 

 the late Mr. Gallon's hounds. 



We bolted an otter on the Batts Island, below 

 Cover Bridge. He took straight up stream, over 

 the Dam stakes, into the deep pool above Ulshaw 

 Bridge, and there he defied us for nine hours. 



