. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. 221 Ouse, or Oose. beating up the hollow banks, reed-beds, and sedges, ^^•ith hounds trained to the sport; its seal, or the impression left by its feet in the mud usually indicating the whereabouts it was to be searched for ; and the spraints, or dung, aided in the discovery. When roused, the animal at once took refuge in the water, assailed
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. 221 Ouse, or Oose. beating up the hollow banks, reed-beds, and sedges, ^^•ith hounds trained to the sport; its seal, or the impression left by its feet in the mud usually indicating the whereabouts it was to be searched for ; and the spraints, or dung, aided in the discovery. When roused, the animal at once took refuge in the water, assailed on ever\' side by dogs and spearman. The first dive of the alarmed beast was a season of suspense, and every eye was employed to mark his vent, or the place where he rose again to breathe. His rise was the signal of a new assault; again he dived, and so on, until, wearied with his exertions, the dogs closed around him, and the struggle for life began. Then his determined resistance, the severe ?wounds he inflicted on the most forward ' of his canine assailants, his attempts to I drown them, and his unflinching perti- ' nacity to the last, until thrust through by a spear, and thus killed outright, rendered the chase at least as exciting as the most arduous stag ; The ordinary weight of full-grown otters is from 20 to 24 lb. the male, and 17 to 20 lb. the female. Tiie fur of the animal is valued, but its flesh is seldom relished. OTJSE, OR OOSE. A name for tanner's bark. OUSEL. A blackbird. OWIi. Ornithologists enumerate eighty species of owls, but the number actually known is much less numerous. There is a considerable aflinily between the falcon (falco) and the owl {strix) genus, and the latter have been termed noc- turnal hawkS; difTering, as Linnceus re- marks, as the moth from the butterfly. The white or barn owl, called by some naturalists, Sin'x flarfirnca, and by others Altico flamntea., lives chiefly on mice, which it swallows whole, but it likewise often de
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