84 FROM SPRING TO FALL. 



there' they have increased, and still flourish. A 

 change of habitat does good at times to beasts as 

 well as men. In the case of the otters it has been 

 to their advantage, but how long this may continue 

 one is not able to say. Wild creatures are capricious 

 at times in their movements. 



If they get at the fowls and ducks, something will 

 be said and something done for their thinning off. 



How far the otters wander in the dead of winter 

 their trails and seals plainly show. They are watched 

 for, but the watchers have been a little before or a 

 little after the time : so much the better for our 

 friends. The otters belong to that very astute 

 family that includes the weasels ; and these, we 

 know, we never catch sleeping. 



