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April, 1922 
streams and lakes. It builds dens with 
underwater entrances, where the water 
never freezes. The animal is the best 
swimmer of any and a great diver and 
fisher ; a fair traveler, but not for dis- 
tance. In rough territory it always fol- 
lows the same route from one pond or 
stream to another, and will walk around 
an object rather than climb over the 
same, due to short legs and its body long 
and heavy, so that it sometimes drags 
the ground. The otter eats fish, frogs, 
clams and muskrats, and will also catch 
wild ducks and geese by seizing them 
from beneath. They catch fish by swim- 
ming them down. The young are born in 
-\pril and from two to four in a litter. 
Otter are ver}'- affectionate and fond of 
each other and like to roll and play and 
slide down steep banks, hence the “otter 
slide." You will generally see them slide 
on their backs, therefore trapping at the 
base of the slide is not very successful. 
Of course, they also slide feet down, but 
in my observations I have noted two on 
their backs to one otherwise. The otter 
travels under ice in winter. 
Harvey R. Plummer, Iowa. 
In including the zecasci, Usher, marten, 
mink and otter in a single “family,” the 
ZL’ord “family” zoas used correctly, in its 
technical sense, in the article by Agnes 
Laut. These are all related animals. To 
be sure, they all have different habits, but 
the differences in the animals themselves 
are largely because of such different hab- 
its. IVc assume that in the dim past they 
all had a common ancestor, luhich zuas 
different, for instance, from the ancestors 
of the bear or cat at that time. If several 
brothers, starting out in life, one became 
a zvoodsman and trapper, one a tailor, 
one a poet, and one a railroad conductor, 
they zvould presently look different, zvear 
different clothes, and act differently . — 
[Editors.] 
RABBITS, DOGS, GUIDES 
Dear Forest and Stream ; 
1 HAVE read with much interest an ar- 
ticle in your February issue on rab- 
bits and dogs, written by Mr. W. N. 
Easton, of Indiana. With all due respect 
to Brother Easton’s sportsmanship, I fail 
to agree with his remarks and I believe 
I have plenty of company among the 
“dogless" hunters of rabbits. 
If it is a sportsman’s hobby to hunt 
rabbits with a dog, let him go to it, so 
long as he obeys the hunting laws of the 
State in which he hunts, and this also 
applies to all other hunters. Personally 
I prefer hunting rabbits without a dog 
and like to do all the “bouncing out" my- 
self and I believe fully 90% of the 
hunters of rabbits in tins State, as well 
as other States hunt without a dog. 
What is more thrilling than to 
“bounce” a bunny on a frosty day and 
turn him over with a load of sixes while 
going top speed? Surely this is more 
sportsmanlike than to have a hound 
bring a rabbit right by you on a slow 
hop, while you sit perched on a stump or 
some other high seat ready to bowd him 
over with a shotgun. 
In my opinion the real sport in hunting 
with a dog is to see the dog work and 
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