OTTER-HUNTING 



more you will have, for directly people realise that 

 you and your hounds mean business and are " out 

 for blood," they will leave it to you to do the killing, 

 and confine their attentions to preserving your 

 quarry. A small district, regularly hunted, will 

 provide much better sport than a large one casually 

 attended to. The fixture card of the average Otter 

 Hunt should show " Where leave off " much 

 oftener than it does at present. In a small district 

 a Hunt is much less dependent on trains for mov- 

 ing hounds from place to place, and there is far 

 more opportunity to " lie out " overnight at some 

 farm or other homestead, and thus continue 

 hunting at the same place on the following day. 



Harking back to the river, a great many people 

 imagine that when hounds hit off a line away from 

 the water, and go full cry through a wood, across 

 open country, or up some tiny streamlet, that they 

 are running riot. That hounds occasionally run 

 riot, more especially the young entry, we do not 

 for a moment deny, but when a pack of entered 



hounds performs in the above manner, they are 



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