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Can I recommend death by shooting?
HENRY WILLIAMSON,
author of "Tarka the Otter,"
answers
above you,
the
RSPCA
anything men don't know what it means, and never did, and, I hope, never will. It comes from phoner over, cnotion.
LETTER in my post, clearly you can see from the Royal Society
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PERHAPS you, reader, are a trout fisherman,
a riparian owner? Perhaps you peer heron-eyed into your pools, and, seeing not the big fellow in his usual place, begin to frown to yourself? And finding a five-webbed seal pressed on the sandy scour by the roots of the oak tree, you say to yourself, Those beastly otters have had him. How about it?
way.
the herons, too.
Well, you could get him that In But just a moment. particularly if it went fast,
your river are cels. Many more would flicker and glimmer. Al- Anyhow, if the R.S.P.C.A. cels than trout. Have you seen so, you would hear loudly the like to use it, that's their bust un cel sneak upon a trout, 'grip They are also welcome to it and eat it alive after, maybe. We have had an inquiry as to drumming throbs of its sinun- neas.
motion film phrases like "elucidated from hours of trying to flap itself the most humane method of de- tions. (A slow stroying otters, which, it is would reveal the twenty m.p.h. the inquirer as to," when sim- free?
dash, apparently in a straight ple people like ourselves would
Trout lay their eggs in gravel. say "found out." But their use alleged, are doing great damage line, as a series of wriggles.)
of the word "humane" is clear, Along comes the nosing, head- its groy in a certain river. As a matter Salmon in rivers are easily
no more criticism. They burying eel, showing of fact, I have not yet elucidated caught by otters. I've caught want to know the quickest way belly as it hores its way under from the inquirer as to whether one myself when the river was to prevent suffering. Shooting stones where the little alevins, new-hatched, hide from light and enemies.' the animals are damaging the
In its terror the fish zigzagged Otter hunters won't like this. banks of the river or are mak-
up and down the deep pool in They regard themselves as the I KNOW a man who rids ing too great an inroad into the which I was wading. It made protectors of otters. This isn't
his river of otters by Although a wash of ripples, then threshed self-deception called hypocrisy. underwater traps. He shot all fish population... the R.S.P.C.A. strongly advo- up the shallow "strickle" of fast
They do protect otters. They water running into the pool-
His trout became scarce, after cates a respect for wild life what fishermen call the "throat" persuade many riparian owners wherever possible, it also takes of the pool and beached itself. not to trup or shoot them. Thus a season or two. The cels ate So he trapped the practicable view that some- How it slapped and swished they are let alone during the the young ones.
breeding season.
the cels, in wire-net tunnels hait- ed with rabbits' guts. The times animals of certain kinds among the stones! You won't be-
"We will keep them down," trout decreased further. become too numerous, with the lieve me, but I put it back, it
was so beautiful, and I felt they say. They may kill fifteen
April-Sep- Then he learned that those tember. Two out of three otters small stone-hiding fish, with Įtake place. . . . The society can- risk being seen!)
flattish heads and spotted bodies, not recommend either the use
I've watched an otter, weigh found get away.
called miller's thumbs (about a ing perhaps eighteen pounds, of a gun trap or fumigation.
TTERS do much good thumb long, they are) or mull- OTT jump on a twenty-five pound
from the trout fisher- heads (in Devon) were eating The letter ends with a re- clean-run fish and, with neck man's aspect. Take the fast all the trout-eggs and alevins he
hair raised and hurring with clear rivers of the north and put in. quest for "any suggestions as hunting excitement-rage, tear the West Country. Lovely
humane method of de- the flesh from the silver-red
fern-cool, clearwater, stroying otters." They suggest shoulder. When the fish was musical trout streams.
dlead the olter lost interest. (I' a shot gun.
didn't, that time, put the fish back!)
"GOLDEN, PYRAMID" Hongkong Telegraph. result that destruction has to mano (Aluso, I didn't want to or twenty in a senson, April Sup
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930.
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, STATESMAN
to a
It is within the province of the Prime Minister of the
Let's see what we can do for United Kingdom to grant #
them. First a few facts. Feel- reprieve from a death sentence.ings without facts are world- No one, but countless millions dangerous. Let us be teuler-
nican.
bubble-
So he lugged out his cel-traps and prayed for cels to return, having learned that the eel feeds The otter is a water Bedouin, mainly on mullheads. He'll travel up опе river,
But how to regulate the num- journeying by night and sleep ber of eels? Then he learned TROUT in a fast, rocky ing by day in a rush-bed, or that the otter's delight, its main
stream are also taken hollow waterside tree, or in a food, was an eel. So he hoped easily by otters. Most trout, holt under the banks (fancy) an for otters to return. They did. especially big or old fish, have English royal society of men And next year, there were many a "hidey-hole," as they say in caring for English animals not of human lives have been re-hearted, but hard-minded.
Devon.
·knowing that otters do no dam- more fingerling trout.
Two years later, one evening, age to banks!) until he contes prieved from death, sudden and
In the non-fouled parts of The otter, travelling upstream to its source in a moor or moun- during the November spawning awful, by the intervention of the
England there
rivers in at dusk (he is usually a beast tain slope, and then crosses over of salmon, he saw an otter come eighth British Prime Minister of which are fish. The fastest and of stars and the moon), swims to another watershed and down into a poel where an old pug, or
along the pool's bed; trout sent to the sea. Oh, to be free as veteran sea-trout, was lying. be.... the twentieth century. Arthur liveliest rivers are the homes of ter. Some dash for their holes
an otter.
side a mother-of-pearl female.. Commotion at once. Neville Chamberlain.
the fastest and liveliest fish- under roots of trees by the bank. The otter merely pulls them out, salmon and trout. Men enjoy takes them on the bank, and The reprieve may be only tem-catching them. So do otters. chaws them head first. porary, for peace has by no Like most fishermen. (but not means come to Europe. But he those with nets who take salmon would indeed be a pessimist who for a living), otters go after would say that war hovers as salmon chiefly for sport. closely over the Continent to-
are
Sometimes he meets another otter or otters and joins in play To his amazement he saw the with them. How they love play- old pug chase the otter about the ing... sliding down a steep pool, bumping it and so embar- You or I could pull them out bank into water, or over a water- rassing it that the otter got out with our fingers—“gubb" them, fall, again and again, rolling and and went hunting rabbits in the And if you take a trout one day, wrestling in the white turmoil hillside warren. there'll be another in that hidey- below, then out again with a hole after the next spate has whistle.. that low, sweet It was an exhilarating sight. It restored his balance, his tran- whistle of joy, like curlews cry quillity.. And in future, he de- ing one to another as they fly cided, he would leave the balance over the seashore. They are 80 of nature alone.
fined down.
Now
about the R.S.P.C.A. question-
The otter is a land beast. A dlay as it did throughout last few centuries ago his ancestors week. Mr. Chamberlain's magni- took to hunting in water. He is what to advise their fisherman happy, so keen a joy in life. ficent efforts may have succeed- half-way between scal and member. "The most humane But to our question: Can I,
weasel. Young otters are scared method." That word "humane" the author
ed in averting catastrophe for
only a few hours, a few weeks
of "Tarka the
IN the wild or natural world speed and grace
of water, and usually have to is much used nowadays: almost Otter," recommend death by and virility are the gifts of na- be dragged in by their mother, entirely a town word. Country- shooting?
or a few months. It may be
They hold their breath under averted forever, if the three water, and hunt by sight. other leaders gathered with
our
will
Premier At Munich approach their task
ĮSIDE GLANCES
IF you swim down in a
salmon pool on a dark night, and open your eyes and with full consciousness of the look up, you'll be surprised how wavo of relief and thanksgiving
that has swept the world at the
fact that their deliberations have man er woman in the world who become an actuality. The senti- does not pray for their success— ment in favour of peace to-day, the world will owe a debt to Mr. after the terrific tension under Neville Chamberlain that it enn which the world has laboured repay only in a small way by during the past week, is over- whelming. The thought of eveu the proximity of war Was horrible and heart-breaking, and the German, Italian, French ander of Peace. British statesmen gathered at Munich must feel In their breasts the same irresistible urge to tread underfoot this dreadful monster that, yester- day, was within a few hours of devouring civilisation.
handing his name down to posterity. He has already join- ed the immortals in British poli- tical history as the Prime Minis- Not that our iin- Premier-Statesman seeks mortality. In his memory, and in the memory of his fellow- countrymon and peoples of other lands, will forever remain the knowledge that, if these negotia- tions succeed, millions who were about to die will owe their re-
If the present deliberations prieve, to the untiring and in- succeed and there can be no 'defatigable efforts of one man.
ture to hunters and hunted.
The charm of the deer is due to its apced and sensibility-all
By George Clark the keener for its need to escape
Cor. 1936 by Lamod Proboro Ayudiente, fun.
"You should have gotten' trump out first, THEN fold us about.
•your new gown, and then played, hearts back to Gladys!"
its enemies. (Don't write and tell me I am a brutal fellow: it's not my world; I didn't make it; I'm only a reporter).
I've been otter-hunting, but I didn't care much for it-usually was too mentally preoccupied to watch the individual
ways of dogs.
..
I have felt anguish for a hunted otter; I have enjoyed the company of those who did not feel as I felt. In my time I have waited to shoot an otter,* and not been smart enough; and I been much relieved afterwards:
that I hadn't fired.
I have reared and tamed: trout; and caught the wild with gnat-like lures of silk and steel and feather, with a cat-like- exultation at my skill with a. 2oz. rod.
I think I know the different sets of feelings which, in men, are usually the causes of bitter- ness, condemnation,
and con-- flict.
And if I have learned any moral from, the wild world it is this: Don't trust your feelings until you get your facts right.