THE SECOND DAY. 

 CHAPTER II. 



OBSERVATIONS OF THE OTTER AND CHUB. 



VEN. My friend Piscator, you have kept time with my 

 thoughts, for the sun is just rising, and I myself just now come 

 to this place, and the dogs have just now put down an otter. 

 Look down at the bottom of the hill there in that meadow, 

 chequered with water-lilies and lady-smocks ; there you 

 see what work they make : look ! leekj y^u^may see all 



_ 



PlSC. Sir, I am right glad to" meet you, and glad to have so 

 fair an entrance into this day's sport, and glad to see so many 

 dogs and more men all in pursuit of the otter. Let us com- 

 pliment no longer, but join unto them. Come, honest Venator, 

 let us be gone, let us make haste; I long to be doing; no 

 reasonable hedge or ditch shall hold me. 



VEN. Gentleman-huntsman, where found you this otter? 



HUNT. Marry, sir, we found her a mile from this place, a- 

 fishing. She has this morning eaten the greatest part of this 

 trout ; she has only left this much of it as you see, and was 

 fishing for more ; when we came we found her just at it ; but we 

 were here very early, we were here an hour before sunrise, and 

 have given her no rest since we came ; sure, she will hardly 

 escape all these dogs and men. I am to have the skin, if we 

 kill her. 



VEN. Why, sir, what is the skin worth ? 



