The quarry12 the otter13 had set her mind on were the pike frequenting the reedy bays, towards the largest of which the hunters swam. Near a bed of lilies they dived, and had not made half the circuit of the wall of stems before they espied14 a pike. He had already seen them, and in an instant the protruding15 muzzle16 was withdrawn17 as the fish backed into his ambush18. It afforded him no refuge from the pursuers, who drove him from one to another of its recesses19, and pressed him so closely that, as he saw, to remain meant capture. Out he flashed and, had he made right away and gained the heart of the mere, he would have escaped. But he sought the shelter of another lily-bed almost within sight of the first, and there the otters21 followed in unrelenting chase. Presently he was gripped by the male cub, but, freeing himself, forsook22 the weeds for the water outside, where, with distended23 jaws24 and fins25 erect26, he darted27 now here, now there, to avoid his harassing28 pursuers. All was in vain. He had missed his earlier opportunities, and to escape in his exhausted29 condition was impossible. Conscious of this and determined30 not to die unavenged, he summoned his remaining strength, dashed at the otter, seized her by the throat, and held on despite her struggles. This however left him at the mercy of the cubs31. Instantly they fastened on his shoulders and, using their powerful rudders, tried to raise him to the surface. Beating his tail, the fish for awhile succeeded in resisting their efforts; but in the end he tired, and presently the writhing32 mass came to the top of the lake and, rolling over and over, showed now on the crest33, now in the trough of the waves. There the otter wrenched34 herself free and, half-throttled though she was, at once joined in the attack. The three soon overpowered their prey35 and landed with it at an opening in the reeds. Whilst they were dragging it from the water’s edge a tremor36 passed through the fish. Immediately the hungry hunters relaxed their hold, fell to and sliced and sliced and champed and champed till wellnigh half the fish was eaten and the great backbone37 showed. The feast over, they licked their chops, brushed their whiskers against the stems and, taking to the water, played hide-and-seek amongst the lilies.
The exultation38 they felt over their capture showed in their excited gambols and in their wild rush through the reed-bed on their way to the bar. They crossed this at a gallop39 to the edge of the tide, plunged40 into the breakers and, reaching the quieter water beyond the surf, headed straight for the great pile of rocks over which the spray was dashing in clouds. On landing, they threaded the sobbing41 passages between the boulders42 and gained the caves that honeycomb the cliff behind. There they came on the remains43 of old feasts—fish bones, crab44 and lobster45 shells—and on old nests made of reeds. One cave there was where the muffled46 boom of the waves was broken by the tinkle47 of falling water, and where the skeletons of otters whitened the floor on the edge of the runlet that had worn a channel in the rock. Quickly leaving it, the animals made their way back along the low, tortuous48 passage by which they had entered and, passing through the outer caves, regained49 the clitter. There they chased one another until they tired. Then they took to the sea, reached the line of the breakers, and landed through the welter as easily as, later, they landed on the bank of the mere by the inflow. The otter was then leading her cubs to the withy-bed and to the boggy50 ground between it and the old decoy, where she trod the water-mint as she went.
So the hours of darkness were spent, and when the grey light told of coming day otter and cubs slipped into the stream and drifted towards the mere. On reaching the choppy water they fell to swimming, turned up the sheltered creek, skirted the island where two of them had kennelled the day before, and landed near a bramble brake, in which they curled up side by side. The cubs soon slept, but the excitement of the journey to the salmon51 river kept the otter awake longing52 for dusk, so eager was she to cross the moors54 and reach the pools. She dropped asleep at last, but awoke long before setting-out time and, whilst awaiting nightfall, watched the angry sun go down and the clouds scud4 by close overhead.
Before it was quite dark she aroused the cubs, and made up the hilly ground towards the heart of the moor53. It was a wild night, but the fury of the gale55 seemed to quicken the energies of the wanderers, for they breasted the foothills at a pace beyond their wont56 and soon gained the high plateau with its chain of pools, known to men as the Black Liddens. These they swam as they came to them, passed to the heathery waste with its old Stone Circle, and reached the marshy57 valley and the lazy stream which supplies the mere. The wind had little force there—the thorns, shaggy with lichen58, stood motionless, even the bulrushes scarcely stirred; but over a stagnant59 backwater a will-o’-the-wisp kept dancing like a lantern swung by invisible hands. Splash! splash! the otters crossed the shallow pool near the stream; and again, splash! splash! they rushed through the shoal water beyond it before turning up the brae that led to the wind-swept moor. On, on the untiring creatures sped, more like agents of darkness executing some urgent commission than beasts of prey speeding to a new fishing-ground. Mile after mile of the desolate60 upland they traversed: at one spot skirting a cairn whence came that weirdest62 of all wild cries, the shrill chattering63 of badgers64; at another, passing the only road over the moor, where they left their footprints between the fresh wheel-marks of the doctor’s trap. A sleeping hamlet rose almost in their path, and so close did they approach that they heard the creaking of the signboard of the Druid’s Arms, about which the cottages cluster. Then over wall after wall they clambered as they came to the crofters’ holdings, reached the lodge65 of the keeper who had been the otter’s terror when her cubs were helpless, gained the edge of the moorland above the old nursery, made their way down the very gully along which the hounds had followed the fox and, leaping the stream close to the hover66, came out on the salmon pool beyond the poplar.
Eager to see whether the pool held a fish, the otter slipped into the water and swam to the favourite lie near the foot of the fall. A salmon was there, and towards it she advanced so swiftly that it seemed she must fasten before it could become aware of her presence. But the fish had been harried67 by otters on its way up from the estuary68, and was prepared for her coming. In a flash he was off downstream, leaving the otter far in his wake. At the tail of the pool he swung round, raising a big wave that greatly excited the cubs where they watched on the edge of the bank. After a short interval69 the wave came again, and again, and again. Later the salmon leapt clear of the white water near the fall. And so the chase continued, until the otter, seeing how vain were her unaided efforts, summoned the cubs to her assistance. In an instant they slipped into the pool and joined in the pursuit.
Now wherever the salmon turns an otter meets him. Conscious of the danger he is in, he rushes at the shallows in a daring attempt to reach the waters below. His three enemies hurry after him, breaking the surface in their desperate haste, and while he is still floundering the otter closes and strives to grip him beneath the gills. No defence has he but his slippery scales and the lashing70 tail that sweeps his foes71 aside. But these avail, and before the teeth fasten in him he struggles through to the deep water beyond, where he easily outdistances his pursuers. Pool after pool he passes at his utmost speed, making for a refuge that lies near the foot of the rapids. He had rested in it on his way up the river, and now swings into it and stays there gasping72, in dread73 of discovery. The otters soon show on the top of the rushing waters, which they search as they descend74, ducking their heads, and yet avoiding the rocks against which the current threatens to dash them. In a few seconds they are close to the spot where the fish lies exhausted, and surely one or other will get a glimpse of him. But no, the sheltering rock befriends him, or the foaming75 waters amidst which he lies. The hunters pass on; but he is not safe yet. If they draw the rapids against the stream they can hardly miss him. But will they? Apparently76 not—at least, not for the moment. They are going on, despite the near approach of day. How carefully they examine the hollow banks and recesses of the boulders, disdaining77 even the grilse they disturb, in their expectation of yet getting the salmon! Beneath the gloomy pines that form a vista78 towards the brightening east they swim, eager as ever.
But, clear of the trees, they all at once cease their quest and listen. Some suspicious sound downstream has alarmed them. They are all ears when, above the voice of the river and the wild rustling79 of the tree-tops, the penetrating80 note again makes itself heard. It is the toot of the horn. The twice-hunted otter dreads81 that sound above all sounds save the cry of the hounds, and before it has died away she and the cubs are in full retreat to the holt in the salmon pool. Only at long intervals82 do they rise to vent83 before reaching the rapids, where they leave the water and gallop up the bank, as if fear itself were at their heels. At the top they re-enter the river, and so gain the shelter of the alder84-roots near the fall.
The cubs, feeling safe in the holt, make their toilet as usual; but the otter listens, and before long catches the dreaded85 cry. Then the cubs hear it too: they begin to share their mother’s alarm and, when the swelling86 clamour tells of the close approach of their enemies, seek the inmost recess20 of their refuge. Soon the hounds enter the pool and cluster like maddened things about the holt. ‘A good solid mark,’ shouts the doctor to the squire87. ‘He’s there right enough.’ The foremost hounds can see the otter where she stands hissing88 through her white teeth, but they cannot reach her. So the hounds are called off that a terrier may get at the quarry, and after a terrible fight he compels the otter to take to the water. Shouts of ‘Heu gaz’ from the field greet the appearance of the bubbles that betray her flight, and the next moment the twelve couple of hounds are in pursuit towards the stickle, where a dozen men or more stand foot to foot to prevent her from going down-water.
HOUNDS SWIMMING AN OTTER. To face p. 78.
Round and round the big pool swims the otter, rising now under the bank, now amongst the hounds, narrowly escaping their jaws. Time after time she returns to the cubs, but only to be ejected by one or other of the terriers. At last, after being badly shaken by the hounds, she lands, gallops89 round the line of men with the white terrier at her rudder, and gains the water beyond. At amazing speed she follows the winding90 reaches to the rapids, and even succeeds in gaining Longen Pool, famous in the annals of the Hunt. However, the hounds again press her sorely, and after a while she takes to the tangled91 coppice on the hillside, traverses it, reaches an ancient hedgerow matted with bramble and thorn, and there lies listening, trusting to have escaped pursuit. But she has left a burning scent92, and soon the cry of the pursuers warns her that her hopes are vain. Nevertheless, as she is very weary, and as the pool to which the hedge runs down offers no harbourage, she remains where she is. But though the hounds soon wind her, the denseness93 of the thicket94 hinders them from getting at her until the terriers force her to the river. In the shallow water every eye can mark her where she swims and note her shortening dives. The end is near. Presently Dosmary seizes her as she rises, and the pack worries her life out.
That night, when the storm had passed, the miller95 heard the cries of two otters in the tangled coppice beyond the orchard96, and as he knocked the ashes from his pipe before going indoors, said: ‘They’re missin’ her, I’m thinkin’.’ He was right. It was the voice of the cubs calling for their mother.
They were there again the next night, and the next; after that they gave up the vain search and withdrew to the moorland.
It was well for the young creatures, thus thrown on their own resources, that they were able to fend97 for themselves. Indeed, as has been seen, the male cub had already shown signs of revolt against his mother’s authority, and of a desire for independence.
He was free now, free to roam as he liked, to keep to the trail or leave it as he pleased, to fish when and where he chose; for his sister had no influence over him. Yet, for all his selfish, headstrong ways, he proved a safe leader, his movements being inspired by the wariness98 of the outlawed99 creature. He was a stickler100 for good hours, rising late and couching early. He curbed101 his passion for wandering, and showed rare judgment102 in the choice of hovers103, selecting always with an eye to strength and invariably shunning104 such as were not near deep water where refuge might be sought in emergency. On sallying out he generally fished upstream for a mile or two, gambolled105 till the night was nearly gone, and then floated back with the current, shooting the rapids and lesser106 falls on the way. Yet fear haunted both him and his sister, for they carefully scrutinized107 every bush, rock, and bole that might harbour an enemy, and their fears grew to terror once when they happened on the remains of one of their kind recently killed by the hounds. On the discovery they were at once all consternation108, as their puffing109 and blowing showed, and forthwith forsook the tributary110 for the river, kennelling at the end of their hurried retreat in a hover below the mill. They lay in this holt on the following day, but the next found them ensconced under the bank of the weir61 pool at Tide End. There they were waked towards noon by the tide, which rose and rose till it invaded their quarters, and compelled them to seek refuge in the opposite bank, where a young dog-otter was already lying up. Their coming startled him not a little, but the moment he saw the new arrivals were otters like himself he settled down again, and soon all three were sound asleep. At dusk they journeyed on together and, after fishing and sporting in the salmon pool below the morass111, sought the roots of the alder. They lay there again on the morrow, a morrow momentous112 in one of its happenings—the separation of the cubs. For when, at setting-out time, the male cub began moving up-water, his sister, till that moment the most faithful of followers113, turned her back on him and, with the strange otter at her heels, struck into the wood. She had renounced114 the brother for the lover. Is it possible, animal though she is, that she can abandon the companion of her life hitherto, without some sign of regret? May not the slowness of her steps indicate reluctance115 to sever116 the ties that have so long bound them? Surely it is so, for just as she is about to enter the undergrowth, she stops and turns her head to find her brother watching her. The next minute, however, she has passed out of his sight and out of his life, as, with her mate, she follows the trail that leads by the woodman’s cottage and the cairn to the distant mussel creek whither she is bound.
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creek
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recesses
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crab
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lobster
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followers
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