A lot of dipping and splashing in water in this beautiful book, by otters at play or as prey, and by the hounds who hunt them.

‘… as they dipped and splashed in the wind-ruffled water.’

Source: Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter: His joyful water-life and death in the two rivers, illus. C.F. Tunnicliffe (Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, 1976 (1927)), p. 81