124 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



it makes great havock among the inhabitants of the waters. 

 Not supposing that we had any of those beasts in our 

 shallow brooks, I was much pleased to see a male otter 

 brought to me, weighing twenty-one pounds, that had 

 been shot on the bank of our stream below the Priory, 

 where the rivulet divides the parish of Selborne from 

 Harteley-wood, 



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