THE SECOND DAY. 



CHAP. II. Observations of the OTTER and CHUB. 

 VENATOR. 



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, 

 checkered with water-lilies and lady-smocks ; there you may 

 see what work they make. Look ! look ! you may see all busy, 

 men and dogs, dogs and men, all busy. 



Pise. 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 's com- 

 pliment no longer, but join unto them. Come, honest Vena- 

 tor, let 's 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 thus 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 's the skin worth ? 



HUNT. 'T is worth ten shillings to make gloves ; the gloves 

 of an Otter are the best fortification for your hands that can be 

 thought on against wet weather. 



