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Identifier: ottersotterhunti00came (find matches)
Title: Otters and otter-hunting
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Cameron, Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe-Jewell, 1866-
Subjects: Otters Otter hunting Hunting -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : L. Upcott Gill New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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he will never use it in the hunting-field. CHAPTER XV. EXISTING OTTER HUNTS IN THEBRITISH ISLES. As may be seen by a glance at the accompanyingmap, there are no fewer than twenty-two advertisedpacks of Otter-hounds regularly hunting in GreatBritain, while others have just been formed inIreland, where in former years The Kings and Mr.Doynes packs showed sport in different parts of theisland. Otter-hunting, therefore, is on the increase,and despite the ill-informed, but abortive, effortsof self-advertising and sentimental busy-bodies, itsfuture as the least artificial and most humanelyconducted of all field-sports seems one of happyaugury. Nevertheless, it is undoubtedly true that severalof the hunts as at present constituted have (to use anAmericanism) bitten off a great deal more countrythan they can chew. Their attempt to retain it isdetrimental to the best interests of the sport, andespecially to the keeping up of a sufilicient head ofOtters for hunting purposes. Explain the mystery
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K.:-:^ ^-v.-^- Existing Otter Hunts in the British Isles. 1S3 how you will, it is where Otters are frequentlyhunted that Otters will be found. An annual visitto a stream is worse than useless, since if an Otteris found there it only serves to show the localriparian owners, angling societies, and their keepers—not to speak of the loafers and poachers of thedistrict—that Otters frequent their waters; and,since hounds are known not to be coming again for atwelvemonth, they are ruthlessly slain by gunshotand trap, with the result that the next annual visitis like to prove a blank. In any country it is always in the rivers nearestkennels that the best sport is obtained, partly,perhaps, because there are more interested folk tokeep an eye upon them, but chiefly because they aremore frequently hunted. No stronger argumentin favour of smaller Otter-hunting countries andmore numerous packs could possibly be adduced,and were it acted upon such anomalies as onecounty supporting four packs, a

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