otter slides

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/59375

otter n The old furrier, who acted as my guide, showed me many "otter slides." These were always on a steep sloping bank of a pond or stream, where the water remained unfrozen. They were as smooth and slippery, as glass, caused by the otters sliding on them in play, in the following manner: - Several of these animals seek a suitable place and then each in succession, lying flat on his belly, at the top of the bank, slides swiftly down over the snow, and plunges into the water. The others follow, while he crawls up the bank at some distance, and running [over] round to the sliding place, takes his turn again, to perform the same evolution as before. The wetness RUNNING from their bodies freezes on the surface of the slide, and so the snow becomes a smooth glitter of ice. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W. J. KIRWIN FEB 1972 JH FEB 1972 Used I and Sup Used I Used I [see also 'otter rubs', otter 'rubbing places', etc.] Continued from"O_13498_otter n"