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belaved poor Terry, but Terry's not the boy that iver 

 told his anner a lie." I own I was astonished to find 

 Terry's story come true, and at seeing myself what 

 I could hardly have believed. 



I have often caught salmon with evident marks 

 of having been severely handled upon them, and 

 there is no doubt in my mind but that the marks I 

 have often noticed have been from having been held 

 and clapper-clawed by a seal. No net or other 

 engine that I know of could produce the same kind 

 of marks which have evidently been made by a seal's 

 flipper, which is a most powerful machine of its kind, 

 and when skinned is exactly like a man's hand. 



SEAL AND YOUNG ONE. 



I remember on one occasion whilst staying with 

 a friend at a place called Gowla, in Erris, for fishing, 

 the weather being very hot, and the sun's perpen- 

 dicular height being too hot for fishing, I took a 

 boat and proceeded with my servant to some deserted 

 islands in hopes of finding a seal. The islands had 

 been inhabited before the terrible potato famine, 

 which pretty nearly exterminated the race of Irishmen 

 on that bleak and rocky shore. 



