REMINISCENCES 



to the precipitous nature of the country. The 

 pack is composed of the old Welsh breed, some 

 rough and some smooth, with many of the old 

 black-and-tan colour amongst them. These 

 hounds have been in Major Jones's family since 



1765. 



Probably few people have been out with both 



foxhounds and otterhounds on the same day, but 

 we can plead guilty to having accomplished this 

 feat. Before the L.D.O.H. were disbanded, 

 hounds met very early one morning, but failed 

 to get an otter afloat, and when they returned to 

 kennels we went off and joined the Coniston 

 Foxhounds, and eventually saw Reynard accounted 

 for. 



A great many people appear to have a rooted 



idea that an otter is a slow-moving, clumsy creature, 



which never leaves the vicinity of water. Such an 



assumption is, to say the least of it, inaccurate, as 



anyone can easily testify, particularly those who 



have done much otter-hunting on the rocky rivers 



of the north. In a previous chapter we have 



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