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accompany the hounds, or was not allowed to go 
with them, but the hounds, although they hunted 
their quarry with all the zeal and fury natural to 
them, refused to bite or hurt it in any way when 
they got it. Their friendship with an otter had 
had a psychological effect on their otter - hound 
natures. 
