No one was more interested than the squire12, but he succeeded in concealing13 the excitement he felt, unless, perhaps, it showed in his very caustic14 language to the field at the least tendency to press the hounds; and when the season ended without the otter being accounted for, no one save his wife and the old butler knew his disappointment. But disappointed he was; and indeed it was almost inexplicable17 that the hounds should not have chanced on the otter, for he kept to the usual trails and kennelled in the well-known holts. Once they followed his line to the creek18, but there, owing to the rising tide, the pursuit had to be abandoned. At another time they actually drew over him where he lay far in under the bank out of mark.
Yet if he bore a charmed life to hunter and hound, he was not fortunate enough to keep quite clear of the other perils19 that beset20 him. After having long avoided traps set here and there on his path, he was caught when about fourteen months old by a gin laid in a shallow, and he carried the cruel engine about with him for three days before the chain became so entangled21 in an alder-root that he was able to wrench22 himself free. Soon after he was shot at by old Ikey, the wild-fowler, in the channel connecting the Big and the Little Liddens. His quickness in diving at the flash alone saved him, for the man was a dead shot. One night he came on a gang of poachers ‘burning the reed’ in the pool below the morass24, and stood to watch them, fascinated by the flare25 that lit up the excited faces bending over the water. But though scared by the sight of his enemies, he went only a short distance out of his way to avoid them, and soon after was chasing a salmon26 in Moor11 Pool, killing27 in time to make a hurried meal and reach the tarn28 before dawn.
Long, arduous29 and generally vain was his pursuit of the fresh-run fish; but, mighty30 hunter that he was, he was successful now and then, and enjoyed a hard-earned feast.
It was after such an achievement that the bailiff stood a-stare at his tracks, and shouted to the miller31 to come down to him. ‘What do ’ee think of it?’ he asked. ‘Think of it?’ said the miller, who had noticed only the remains32 of the otter’s banquet, ‘think of it? You didn’t holloa like that for an old fish, did ’ee? I thought somebody was drow——’ Before he could finish the word he saw and, understanding, added in a changed tone: ‘Well, well, they prents beat all I ever did see. I’d give a sack of bests to clap eyes on the varmint as left ’em. Where’s a lyin’, wonder. Anywheres handy, do ’ee think?’
‘It’s a safe offer you’re making, William Richard. You’ll nae see the canny34 vagabond the day. He’s no couching near the kill, I’m thinking, but miles and miles awa’—at Lone23 Tarn, maybe, or by the Leeddens. That print’—and he pointed16 to a footmark half in and half out of the water—‘seems to say he was travelling up-water.’
Photo W. S. Berridge, F.Z.S. To face p. 108.
ON HIS WAY UP THE CREEK.
The bailiff was right in supposing that the otter had sought a distant couch, but wrong as to the direction it took and its whereabouts. At that moment the animal was curled up asleep in Rundle’s oak coppice overhanging the estuary36, ten miles away as the river winds. The next day he was in the bat-cave, but he had not come to stay. At night he was off again, nor did he arrest his steps save to fish and call along the lonely reaches which led to the swamp he was bound for, a good league beyond the bridge. Indeed, he was always on the move, seeming to think it unsafe to sleep two successive days in the same hover37. In one fastness, however, he was content to linger—the headland between the Gull38 Rock and the Shark’s Fin10. There he would stay for days together, held by the drear solitude39, the supply of fish, and the snug40 lying in the caves that honeycombed the cliff, where man never came, and where, whether the wind blew from the east or from the west, the otter, who disliked exposure to it as much as any fox, could always find a recess41 on the lee side to shelter in. He took no notice of the tolling42 of the bell that marked the reef on which he often landed, and the only thing that drove him away was the flooding of his hovers43 by tempestuous44 seas. This at last made him seek the drain in the island of the squire’s pond the day before he came to the marsh, sharing it with two other dog-otters45, refugees like himself. At dusk he foraged46 along-shore despite the heavy ground seas, and at peep of day returned to his old couch at the foot of the reeds.
To see him lying there no one would dream that he lived in fear of his life. His breathing is placid47, his limbs are quiet; no whimper, telling of disturbing dreams, escapes his lips; the very lapdog on the hearth48 might be more troubled than he. Nor does he seem to be the ferocious49 beast he is till he raises his head and peers suspiciously through the stems; then the fierce, restless eyes proclaim him a savage50 and an outlaw51 as he scans bar and cliff and creek. On the bare patch on the hillside his glance rests a moment—one would say the removal of the furze was a matter of concern to him; but soon, apparently52 satisfied, he falls to grooming53 the glossy54 coat which is his pride. He bestows55 much care on the massive fore-limbs and on the huge, splayed feet whose prints have stirred the imagination of the neighbourhood. A bit of fur on his grey waistcoat not being all he would have it, he licks it again and again; and so the afternoon passes, till the starlings come flying in to roost, the shadows creep over the furze, and the mists gather on the mere56.
When night had quite closed in, he rose, slipped into the water and, coming up a good gunshot away, swam rapidly towards the beach. In the shallows he turned his mask as if to make sure the mist harboured no enemy, and then took across the bar, spurning57 the pebbles58 and seaweed as he ran. At the edge of the tide he looked back again, but as nothing met his eyes save the ridge35 and the stars that shone above it, he moved leisurely60 down the shelving strand61, plunged62 into the curl of the wave, came up in the rough water beyond, made straight for the fishing-ground some two furlongs from the shore, dived, and began scouring63 the sand and the rocks that chequered it. He looked more like a conger than a beast of prey64; yet the fish were quick to recognize their dreaded65 enemy, and darted66 from his path. Of sand-eels and flat-fish he took no heed67, but gave chase to a bass68, pursuing it till it was lost to sight in the depths beyond; then, his lungs being exhausted69, he shot up through the seven fathoms70 of water and lay awhile on the surface, now in the trough, now in the crest71 of the wave, with his face towards the moon, which had risen clear of the headland. He seemed to be listening, perhaps to the booming in the caves or to the tolling of the bell on the Shark’s Fin, but more probably to the surf about the Seal Rock, for presently he swam towards this favourite landing-place. Within a stone’s throw of it, however, he dived, and made his way in a spiral down and down until he reached the mouth of a cave in the base of the great pyramid of which the rock is the peak.
He knew the place well, for he had been worsted there by a conger some months before, and he had come now in quest of the same fish. His head was scarcely through the weeds that half screened the entrance when he sighted his enemy, who on the instant retreated to its stronghold in the wall of the cave. There, quicker than it takes to tell, each fastened on the other. Matched in weight and strength as they were, it is doubtful whether the otter would have got the mastery even in the open: in the conger’s own retreat the attempt was hopeless. But the otter did not realize that, and made frantic72 efforts to drag the fish from its den15. Despite them all he failed to move it a single inch, and the only result of his struggles was to free himself from the conger’s jaws73. When his breath was all but exhausted he relinquished74 his hold and turned to go. Thereupon the conger, taking the offensive, made a grab at him; it tried to seize him again near the mouth of the cave to which it pursued him, but in both cases it failed to get a grip of the slippery skin, and the next minute the otter was at the surface.
He had not done with his antagonist75. As soon as his lungs were refilled, he dived again, and in a trice was back in the cave, face to face with his enemy, this time with tactics sobered by experience. Instead of laying hold of the fish, he kept making feints at it and retreating, with the object of enticing76 it into the open; but the wily conger never budged77.
Then the otter examined the wall of the cave in the hope of getting at the fish from behind, where the powerful tail gripped the rock. There was no way in, however, and again the baulked marauder had to ascend78 to take breath. Three times more he made his way down to the mouth of the den, dodging79 to and fro within a foot of the dull green motionless eyes; but in the end he gave up hope and left.
As he rose to the surface the last time he seized a pollack with such eagerness that his teeth met through it, and this he took to the rock and devoured80. Then, swimming towards the shore, he fished along the cliffs, catching81 wrasse which he left uneaten on the weed-covered ledges84 where he landed, till at length, tired of wanton destruction, he entered the clitter, and after a long interval85 came out on the topmost boulder86, gained the crest of the cliff, and so crossed to the creek. There he cruised restlessly from bank to bank, raising himself at times half out of the water and looking round as if in search of something. Presently he took to the furze brake that mantles87 the slope and, traversing the bare patch, passed up the misty88 valley, only to return to the sand-hills beyond the cottage, where, like an embodied89 spirit of unrest, he wandered from dune90 to dune, repeating at times the shrill91 whistle he had already sounded from the Seal Rock and the bends of the stream that winds along the valley, and standing33 with raised head pointed now this way, now that, to listen. Once he thought he heard an answering call, but presently discovered his error, and from that moment gave over calling.
Thus he spent the hours of the long night before returning to his lair92, where he busied himself in cleansing93 his lips and whiskers of the slime that adhered to them and smoothing the patches of his coat, disarranged by the conger’s jaws. He was long over his toilet, but longer still in falling asleep: the recollection of his defeat kept him awake and caused the hair to rise on his neck as it had risen on the neck of his father at the thought of the pike of Lone Tarn, so that the sun had climbed to half its height before he drowsed and forgot his troubles. Consequently it was late when he bestirred himself and took to the mere, where another dog-otter was already fishing. For a long time each was ignorant of the other’s presence, but at last chance brought them together, and as the stranger flashed by, the otter saw that both ears were torn and that he was otherwise scarred by fighting. Later the two animals passed and repassed one another on the surface, and towards dawn, when the otter made for his couch, the new-comer crossed the beach towards the cliffs.
That night the otter, whilst calling from the Seal Rock, heard a rival call from far away across the water in the direction of the Shark’s Fin. Later the cry came from the cliffs below Cold Comfort Farm, and close on cockcrow from the clitter where he himself had called an hour before. Every minute he expected the stranger to round the bluff94 and cross the bar, and presently he saw him come over the pebble59 ridge and slip into the mere. It was the otter of the night before, who passed down the creek, landed opposite the island, and lay up under the furze.
At nightfall both otters, apparently on good terms, were fishing near the inflow, when the shrill summons of a female reached their ears and set them aflame with passion. They swam as fast as their legs could propel them to the spot whence the call proceeded, and as soon as the otter had landed and licked the face of the skittish95 little creature awaiting the rivals, he turned to face his enemy. Like two furies they fought in the shallows churned with their incessant96 movements. As they struggled they got into deeper water, where, locked together, they sank beneath the surface, and so long did they remain immersed that it seemed as though both must be drowned. But the eddies97 by some decaying lilies told that the fight was still going on, and at last the beasts came up, it might be a yard apart. Quick as lightning they closed again and, rolling over and over, passed from sight a second time in the convulsed water. Then they half rose, and lashing98 the water with their powerful tails, kept snapping at each other with a viciousness that nothing could exceed, their savage snarls99 mingling100 with the clash of their teeth when they failed to get home. For over an hour the conflict raged, now above, now below the surface, till in the end, the old otter, unable to continue the battle, dived to escape further mauling from his victorious101 foe102. But the wild creature’s jealousy103 is never appeased104 unless its rival is utterly105 worsted; and a relentless106 pursuit followed. The bitch otter, now all ears as she had been all eyes, heard the landing, first of the fugitive107, then of his enraged108 pursuer, and soon the crashing of the stems that told of further conflict. At length, in the silence that succeeded the noise of strife109, she saw the victor emerge from the mist as he swam towards the spot where she awaited him. Thus, by the discomfiture110 of the tyrant111 who had been the terror of every young dog-otter on his rounds, the otter won the little mate who was to share his lot.
Happier than they were, two otters could not be. Their close companionship proved it. Where one was, there was the other. They fished in company, they hovered112 together, and when they journeyed to fresh fishing-grounds they travelled side by side. A fortnight after they had paired they made their way up the valley of the stream that supplies the mere, and laid up in holts known to the female otter. Three nights’ fishing and roaming brought them to the great quagmire113 where the stream rises, which in summer is but a thread of water winding115 through the waste of cotton grasses that nod over it. All day they lay asleep on dry couches in the heart of the mire114, and at dusk the female led over the high ridge to the watershed116 that slopes to the northern cliffs where she had been reared. The stream they followed empties itself near a hamlet, and there in the cove82 under the very windows they fished until daybreak drove them to the cave where they intended to hover. Shaking their coats, they entered—to find an otter already in possession. The instant he raised his mask they saw it was he of the scarred face, but before they advanced a yard he had risen to his feet and was in full flight towards another outlet117. The influence of the fight was still on him, and he preferred retreat, even by daylight, to risk of another mauling. They never saw him again.
The otters stayed in the neighbourhood of the hamlet over a week, and during their sojourn118 nothing disturbed them, nothing even made them prick119 their ears, except the creaking of the oars120 as the fishermen rowed past their quarters. On leaving they moved westwards, and beyond two wild headlands came at dawn to the beetling121 cliffs where the seals have their dwelling122 in vast caverns123 hollowed by the Atlantic. Swimming through the turmoil124 of water at the narrow mouth of the nearest cave, they landed half-way in, climbed to a ledge83, from that to another higher still, and there lay down on the bare rock and licked themselves, pausing now and again to look at the seals reclining on the beach of white sand that loomed125 in the darkness shrouding126 the inmost part of the cave. When they had completed their toilet they curled up on the smooth slab127 and, being weary after their long swim, fell asleep, despite the incessant cries of the seals and the ceaseless roar of the waves. They did not awake till the last rays of the sun illumined the surf at the cave’s mouth; but when the shags came flying in to roost, they bestirred themselves, and presently sallied out to fish on the edge of the tide-race and gambol128 in the swirls129 of the boiling eddies.
They used the cave for nearly a week, until tempted130 by the very fine weather to lie out. Then for three days they hovered in the basin at the summit of the Pillar Rock, about a furlong from the cliffs, their presence known only to the gulls131 and gannets that sailed overhead. On resuming their round, they came, after four hours’ journeying, to the beach of the Gulf132 Stream fronting the west, and there they fished and frolicked amongst the waves that broke on the shelly strand, and sought couches amongst the sea-rushes that tuft the dunes133. They lingered there week after week till the weather changed, but on the night of a lurid134 sunset, rounded the grim promontory135 which marks the end of all the land, and set their faces towards the marsh. On the way thither136 the female otter kept biting off the rushes and carrying them in her mouth, and when she reached the mere she at once chose a place in the heart of the reed-bed to make a nest. From it soon proceeded the faint squeals137 of four baby otters, the rearing of which, as it proved, was to try the resources of herself and her mate to the utmost.
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lair
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