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condemned, and hung in chains on Knockin 
Heath. 
The foregoing is one of those traditions of 
which at least the tendency is salutary ; and 
if, in truth, the murderer was not so much 
followed by the same identical Ravens, as 
led by a guilty conscience to see accusers 
and harbingers of justice in all the Ravens 
that he could have met with, from one end 
of the world to the other, still the moral 1s 
impressive. 
“The Otter Cage,” observed Mr. Dart- 
mouth, on going by, “is empty; but it 
keeps in our remembrance that indefatigable 
consumer of fish. I must repeat, that I 
strongly desire to see the Bears, and espe- 
cially the White Bear, in possession of a 
cage upon this model; but do you remem- 
ber what a poet says of the Otter? 
“« « Would you preserve a numerous finny race, 
Let your fierce Dogs the ravenous Otter chase ; 
Th’ amphibious monster ranges all the shores, 
Darts through the waves, and every haunt explores: 
Or, let the gin his roving steps betray, 
And save from hostile jaws the scaly prey !’ ”’ 
