The disappointed hunters landed through the maggoty seaweed which had attracted the fish, and making their way along the stream that flows into the creek20, reached the mill where the otter intended to hover21. To her dismay she found the holt behind the wheel in possession of another otter with cubs, and quite young ones, as she could tell by their squeals22. It was a difficult situation, for day was near; but she was equal to it. Without losing an instant, she hastened back along her trail towards the only other lodging23 she knew within easy reach—a hole in the wall of the quay24. They might be detected whilst making for it, so the mother scanned the sleeping port from the end of the promontory25 before committing herself to the open; but as nobody stirred, the three made across the estuary26 straight towards it. When they were about mid-passage, where the tide ran strongest, a big fish leaped clear of the water and fell with a resounding27 splash. It was a salmon28. The cubs turned their questioning eyes on their mother, but she gave no heed29. She was filled with anxiety lest the hole in the quay should prove to be beyond their reach. High above the water though it was, she herself entered it easily, for she could throw herself out of the water almost like a seal; but, as she had feared, the cubs fell back again and again. The whistling of the distressed30 creatures must have been audible to anyone on the quay. An old man was, indeed, there, putting out the green light which had frightened the cubs as they crossed, but he was as deaf as his ladder, and before he approached the edge to see how high the tide had risen, they had made their greatest effort and gained the shelter of the masonry31.
That day they hardly slept a wink32. They were within earshot of the busiest spot in the port, and every one of the varied33 sounds that reached them was a cause for fresh anxiety. To the ceaseless pacing to and fro of hobbler and pilot there was soon added the shout of the fish-hawker, the bell of the town-crier, and other sounds of trade, varied towards noon by the squeakings of Punch and Judy, the yelping34 of Toby, and the roars of laughter that punctuated36 their performance—a strange hullabaloo indeed for the shy wildlings that had been reared in the quiet of the desolate37 moorland, where only the calls of bird and beast reached them; and many a time through the trying hours they longed to be back in the morass38, under the cairn, or in the cave now so far back on the trail. Welcome at last to their eyes were the dying rays that fired the windows of the cottages across the harbour; doubly welcome the departure of the last fisherman from the quay-head. His footsteps had scarcely died away when the otters slid down the face of the wall into the water and, threading the moorings of the boats above them, rose to the surface in the fairway. Three dark spots that to the man leaning over the side of the brigantine might well have seemed three corks39, showed where the otters swam noiselessly towards the harbour-mouth.
After they had passed the last buoy and, indeed, covered most of the mile that separated them from the lighthouse, they learnt that they were not the only creatures abroad that fine summer night. Barely a furlong could have separated them from the castles that once guarded the narrow entrance when they caught sight of some monsters whose noisy breathing, growing louder and louder as they drew near, might well have proved most terrifying to the easily scared cubs, had not their mother’s indifference40 convinced them they had nothing to fear; and presently mother and cubs were among the shoal of porpoises41, the great backs of which gleamed as they showed above the waves. The mother knew the errand of these corsairs, and understood that they were raiding the salmon that the flooded river had attracted from the offing. Awakened42 memories of great chases in the pools and of feasts on the banks flashed across her brain as she swam, and before she set foot on the point opposite the lighthouse she resolved to complete the round with as little delay as possible and regain43 the upper reaches of the river, where she could teach the cubs how to weary out the fresh-run fish and bring them to the bank.
But the lesson she had come to give the cubs in the sea itself was not a whit3 less important, she thought, as she watched their wonderment on beholding44 the vast liquid plain that stretched out to no shore their piercing gaze could discern. Streamlet, pool, river, creek, estuary—all in turn had been cause for astonishment45, but on the ocean they looked with awe19. And it was theirs to fish in. In the recognition of this spacious46 hunting-ground the timid creatures quite forgot the terrors of the quay, which had but momentarily passed from their minds in the presence of the porpoises, and the next minute they were following in the wake of their mother as she swam towards the Gull47 Rock in the midst of the cliff-skirted bay. Bravely the cubs faced the waves, and bravely they battled with the surf through which they landed; then they looked to their mother to direct them how to fish in the deep water by which they were surrounded.
They had not long to wait. After a glance at the birds on the ledges48 above her head, she dived; both cubs instantly dived, too, and putting forth49 all the strength of their hind-legs, they succeeded in keeping her in sight along the spiral course by which she made her way down and down to the bottom, full six fathoms50 below. To their surprise, they found the bed of the sea alive with tiny shell-fish, which they spurned51 here and there as they quested. On their left rose a wall of rock, in turning the point of which they came face to face with a turbot, that the otter seized and bore writhing52 to the surface. The cubs, who rose with her, kept gripping the fish as they swam, and by the time they reached the landing-place it had ceased to struggle. Then all three settled down to the feast. Nothing but the tail and backbone53 remained when they again took to the water. This time they made the circuit of the rock, and the male cub7, rising from beneath, seized a pollack, carried it in triumph to a reef just a-wash with the tide, and there consumed it. Before he had quite finished, the other cub, and later, the otter, were busy devouring54 wrasse they had taken. When they had eaten their fill, the young otters amused themselves in capturing fish which they no longer needed but left uneaten; and it was over these abandoned spoils that the gulls55 clamoured at dawn, whilst the otters lay in a cave they had entered by a submerged mouth at the foot of the cliffs. Curled up in pits on the sand above the line of flotsam, with the roar of the sea to lull56 them, the cubs soon dropped asleep; but the mother, her thoughts on the big silvery salmon, lay awake making her plans, till at length she, too, yielded to her fatigue57 and slept like the cubs.
Night had fallen when the otters stole through the outlet58, left half uncovered by the ebb59, and swam with rapid strokes for the head of the bay. They were off to a new fishing-ground. They landed where a stream crosses the beach and, striking into the valley down which it flows, followed its course without a halt, until they reached the junction60 of the two rivulets61 that form it. There, however, the otter stood irresolute62. Each water led towards a delectable63 destination—the one to the salmon pools, the other to her native marsh64, with its abundant food-supply and secure hovers65 among the reed-beds—and which to make for she could not decide, until it struck her that the cubs might never find the outlying water without her. Then she set aside her hesitation66, and held along the western branch at a pace quicker than before, as if to recover the time lost in making up her mind.
Leaving the valley about a mile above the confluence67, she cut straight across the middle of the hilly field to the upper corner, where a flock of lambs stood awestruck to watch the strange intruders climb the bank into the next pasture, from which the otters could hear the startled creatures stamping with excitement, until first the otter, then the cubs one after the other, got over the wall and dropped into a neglected road. This led to a stately gateway68 with big iron gates, and beneath them the animals crept to the moss-grown drive, flecked by the moonlight which filtered through the arching crowns of the oaks. They passed a mole-heap or two and numerous little pits scratched by rabbits, but the way was innocent of rut or hoof-mark or any evidence of man’s proximity69. Yet they had not long been following its windings70 before they all at once found themselves face to face with a scene that filled them with consternation71. At a spot where the road makes a sharp bend about an angle of the cliff lay a heap of ruddy embers, and near them a dog. The animal was not asleep, but stretched to his full length and, as his restless ears showed, alert to the slightest sound. His every movement was visible against the dying fire, the glow of which fell on the curtained window of a caravan72 and dimly revealed the gnarled branches above it. The otters, thoroughly73 alive to the danger of attack, stood ready to defend themselves; but, seeing that the enemy gave no sign, they sidled towards the overgrown riding-path just beyond the firelight, and gained it without attracting the dog’s attention. The moment, however, the herbage rustled74 with their movements his head was raised and pointed18 towards the very spot where they stood concealed75. Still as death, they regarded the lurcher through the fronds76, nor did they advance a single step till the drooping77 of the pricked78 ears and the resettling of the long head on the fore-legs showed that suspicion was lulled79. Then, with a stealth that cheated the prating80 ferns, they left their shelter, stole noiselessly as shadows past the gipsy’s bivouac and the side road by which the human nomads81 had come, and escaped into the safe darkness beyond, where the murmur82 of the sea far below reached their ears.
Photo F. Frith & Co., Reigate. To face p. 62.
THE WILD COAST-LINE.
After passing the haunted house to which the long avenue led, they came to a cairn with a roofless lookout83, so placed as to survey the wild coast-line. Here the wanderers again struck inland until they came to a high wall that threatened to bar their advance. But the otter knew the way and, threading the nettles84 bordering the stubble, reached the drain that gives easy access to the park. As if glad to be clear of the prickly harvest-field, the little band made down the slope at a gallop85, passing between groups of trees that cast deep shadows on the turf. In the herbage of the hollow only their backs showed, but every hair was exposed when they breasted the opposite slope, over whose crest86 the land dips abruptly87 to a fishpond. At a headlong pace they dashed between the stems of the pines to the edge of the water, into which they glided88 as noiselessly as voles. So swift were their movements that almost before their presence was known each otter had seized a white trout89 and risen to the surface. One came up near the boathouse, another in the shadow of an hydrangea, the third near the only bit of moonlit bank by the overflow90; and all three swam towards the island, where they lay under the plumes91 of the pampas-grass and devoured92 their take. They ate three or four fish apiece before their hunger was satisfied, and then began chasing one another over the rocks, from which the sea stretched like a plain of beaten silver. Soon they returned along the overflow to the pond, where they gambolled93 as fearlessly as they had done in the creek and other lone94 spots in their wanderings.
To the surprise of the cubs, the taint95 of man on the path caused their mother no disquietude; not once did she stop her play to listen or peer into the bosky gloom about her. Strange disregard of danger in a creature both suspicious and apprehensive96, yet not difficult of explanation. For all the demesne97 within the park wall had long been a sanctuary98 for bird and beast. Not a gun had been fired there nor a trap set time out of mind; and so confiding99 had even otters become that they used the drain on the island to litter in, and would lay up in the holt by the moat under the very windows of the mansion100.
Behind one of these a light had just before been burning, where the young squire101 sat recording102 the day’s sport with his hounds along the stream in which the otter had taught the cubs to fish. But as he wrote he heard the otter whistle. On the instant he dropped his pen, turned down the lamp and, seizing a field-glass, took his seat by the open window. Keen otter-hunter as he was, he was no less keen a naturalist103. Deer, foxes, badgers105, seals, all interested him, though not to the same degree as the otter. The fascination106 this creature had for him was wonderful. To him it was the homeless hunter, the Bedouin of the wild, the subtlest and most enduring of quarry107, the gamest of the game. Therefore he sat with glass to eye watching the lighted space between two clumps108 of rhododendrons where he expected the otters would show. His hands shook and his heart beat faster than its wont110; for the life of him he could not suppress the excitement he felt. Presently a shadow, a moving shadow, followed by another and yet another, darkened the sward—these were the otters; and without a wink he watched them cross the turf to the ferny border of the moat, where, though he could see them no longer, he could follow their movements by the twitching111 of the fronds till, a few seconds later, they entered the water and pursued their graceful112 gambols113 full in his view. Once the otter, attracted by scent114 or sound, or both, half rose out of the moat and looked over the low bank; but the moment she saw that the intruders were only a badger104 and two cubs she fell again to her romps115. Later she looked up and scrutinized116 the strange object at the window. The squire remained as motionless as the gargoyles117; her suspicion was allayed118, and once more she resumed her frolics. Anon the trio stole away and, passing through the drain beneath the park wall by which the badgers had found an entrance, gained the valley where the weary hounds lay asleep in their kennels120. But without a thought of hound or anything else save the marsh to which she was hurrying, the otter made across the barren holdings beyond and, before the squire had given up hope of their reappearance and resumed his pen, she had dropped from the boundary wall of Cold Comfort Farm and set foot on the waste that stretches to the very tip of the promontory.
The wanderers kept near the cliffs, going straight from angle to angle of the indentations that mark the jagged coast-line. Here and there they moved along the edge, so close one behind the other as to look like one creature, presenting even, at times, a snake-like appearance, especially when twisting in and out of the colony of ant-heaps that dotted the long slope within a mile of their destination. Near the top they disturbed a wheatear from amongst some cushions of withered121 sea-pinks; but not another creature did they see until abreast of the seal rock, where a cormorant122 stood watching for the dawn. Then, striking the marsh at the end of a finger-like creek, they followed the bank above it till the mere10 with its reed-beds lay before them. Not a breath ruffled123 the surface: the array of stems stood motionless as forest-trees: all was strangely still, save that the sea was heaving ominously124. After a keen scrutiny125 of the cottage opposite them and a single glance at the sand-bar to the left, the otter trotted126 down the bank and, entering the water, swam towards the farther shore. But when near the wall of reeds she half-wheeled, and coasted along the curves of the little bays, skirting the lily-beds where she had disported127 when a cub.
Till now the finny tenants128 of the mere had given no sign of their presence; but as the otters drew near the inflow a dace jumped out of the water, and the jaws129 of a pike showed above the surface within a few inches of it. The sight stirred the hunting instincts of the male cub, and so great was his rage at his mother’s indifference that, when she crossed the current on her way to the creek, he turned back, determined130 to hover by himself. He landed on a point between two bays and trampled131 a couch at the food of the reeds. An old otter could not have chosen a kennel119 seemingly safer, yet scarcely had he curled up when a most alarming noise struck his ears. It was the creak of oars35 against the thole-pins, and it grew louder and louder till he jumped to his feet to see what was coming. Almost immediately the bow of a boat appeared round a clump109 of bulrushes, and at the oars bent132 the old marshman in his reed-plaited hat and guernsey frock, all lit up by the red sun, now just above the bar. The rower shipped the oars, turned round on his seat, and dropped the killick quietly overboard; but the boat still moved forward till the painter stopped the way on it, less than a score of yards from the otter, who looked on at the baiting and setting of the lines, and even the lighting133 of a pipe before the old man settled down to watch the floats.
Motionless though the fisherman sat, the otter remained on the alert and, whenever the old man rose to land a fish, was on the point of diving and making his escape from so dangerous a neighbour. Thus hour after hour passed, and the morning wore away with no change in the situation, save that a little before noon black clouds rose above the horizon and drifted into the blue spaces of the sky. Intent on his fishing, the marshman took little notice of the sudden change of weather, until a gust134 of wind shook the reed-bed and big drops of rain began to fall. Then, casting a few uneasy glances to windward, he pulled in his lines, raised the killick, pressed his hat on his head, and rowed away.
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whit
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scattered
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creek
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salmon
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astonishment
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gull
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