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attacked him as if she had never had a bite in her 

 life. 



On the Lyne and Forth in Peebleshire there has 

 been good sport ; but the first is small, and both are 

 uncertain. The upper part of the Clyde is good, and 

 also the South jSIedwyn in Lanarkshire, which runs 

 into it. Mr. Hope Vere of Craigie Hill, on the 

 Almond, is a staunch preserver of the animal, al- 

 though he is very fond of fishing. He kept otters 

 very strictly for the late Duke of A thole, and his 

 part is still the surest find on the whole river. It 

 was there that a large dog otter cut up Dinah and 

 the terriers so fearfully in a drain last year, that they 

 had to be carried home. In Fife the Eden is the 

 best river, and has always otters upon it ; but the 

 numerous drains render it very difficult to kill, ex- 

 cept by a mere chance. On the Leven, which is 

 very deep and very dirty, owing to the mills, there 

 has been good sport, and especially with a vixen, otter, 

 which lived before the hounds for o h. 10 m. without 

 any intermission, and then saved herself under an 

 oak tree, which must have been cut down for blood. 

 The upper part of the Whiteadder in Berwickshire 

 furnished a fine run last year ; but its rough and 

 rocky banks make it very difficult to keep up with 

 the dogs, when they are running a fresh drag. Wini- 

 fred, the terrier, backed up Bangor, Fairfax, and 

 Potiphar last October in a run which Lord Wemyss, 

 the owner of much of the property on its banks, 

 would have rejoiced to see. There was a capital 



