324 Wild Life in Wales 



ing only about 4 Ibs. on the i8th January. Some of the 

 farmers blame Otters for the loss of an occasional lamb, and 

 have at any rate better evidence to support their accusation 

 than in the case of the Buzzard, against whom a similar 

 charge of sheep-stealing is often laid. If it would only 

 keep the tame ducks off the spawning redds of the trout 

 in spring, "the water dog" would, I am sure, earn the 

 gratitude of all the followers of the great, though as yet 

 uncanonised, St. Isaac ! 



