FAIR PLAY FOR THE OTTER ON COARSE FISH 



STREAMS 



"Huntsman, — Come, gentlemen, come all, let's go to the place where we 

 put down the otter ; look you, hereabout it was that shee kennell'd ; look you, 

 here it was indeed, for here's her young ones, no less than five ; come, let's 

 kill them all. 



"PiscATOR. — No, I pray, sir ; save me one, and I'll try if I can make her 

 tame, as I know an ingenious gentleman in Leicestershire has done ; who 

 hath not only made her tame, but to catch fish and doe many things of much 

 pleasure." — The Coinpleat Angler. 



OW it grieves the heart 

 of a sportsman to read 

 every now and again in 

 the provincial papers an 

 intimation as follows : — 

 " A very fine bitch otter 

 was on Tuesday last shot 

 by one of Mr Nouveau 

 Riche's keepers. The 

 otter proved upon ex- 

 amination to be sucking 

 young, and after a long 

 hunt, with keen-scented dogs, five well-grown cubs were 

 discovered and despatched." 



Now, if such persons as Mr Nouveau Riche had but 

 seen the grand sport an otter can show before hounds, 

 and could be induced to understand that the amount of 

 damage in the way of decreasing the number of fish in 

 coarse fish streams by otter is practically nil, surely they 



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