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sweet-oil and poured a little down her throat, as 

 Mr Yeatman told me this was a better remedy than 

 spirits, and would have cured her at once had it 

 been possible to get some at the time of the 

 accident. He said that Channing, his father's 

 huntsman, always used it when any of his hounds 

 were bitten by adders, which abounded in the 

 Stock coverts. In the case of Khino, the oil un- 

 doubtedly saved her life. 



I have also found sweet -oil a cure for wasp- 

 stings. By it I saved two terrier pups that had 

 attacked a wasp's nest, and were simply covered 

 with the wasps. They swelled all over the head 

 and body, and had it not been for the prompt use of 

 the oil, must have died. When I found the little 

 things they were still attacking the nest, though 

 nearly blinded by the stings, and I had the 

 greatest difficulty in stopping them and getting 

 them away. 



Before I took the terriers out the following year 

 I entered them all regularly to their new game. 

 In this I was helped by the present of a young 

 otter that weighed 12 lb., and which was brought 

 to me after his capture in a drain near the Stour. 

 Here was an opportunity not to be lost, so the 

 otter was provided with a box, and I determined 

 to make use of him in the education of the 

 terriers. I had no wish to follow Mr " Jack " 

 Russell's example and walk 3000 miles to enter 

 my pack, so I had the otter, with a string on, 

 taken to a small pond close by, where he was 



