Skipper Quotes

“It’s for your own good, Kit,’ Jane said with an expression of sorely tried patience. ‘We don’t want to be stuffy, but you are being fanciful, you know'

‘Rot!’ retorted Kitty.”
― Judith M. Berrisford, Skipper: the Dog from the Sea

“The tracks led along the stream, down the meadow, past the fir copse until the two children came in sight of the sea. Kitty pulled up. The paw-prints had stopped at the beach.

She glanced to the cliffs at each side of the sandy bay, past the farthest point of the headlands toward Bird Island. She dismounted and went forward, leading Dapple to the smugglers’ path, the track which zig-zagged down the cliff to the cover. Although the incoming tide had obviously washed away some paw-prints, Kitty could still see some plainly marked in the sand which the waves had not yet reached.”
― Judith M. Berrisford, Skipper: the Dog from the Sea

“They were spell-bound by the beauty of the snowy-white Alsatian. There was something quite breath-taking about his lean grace, and the sleek outline of his head, with his ears pricked and keen, as he stood motionless on the shingle, showing himself so that they might admire him and be friendly.”
― Judith M. Berrisford, Skipper: the Dog from the Sea