The mouse is in the pond. Go, cat, and bring it out. The cat will not go. The mouse swims. See! it is out of the pond! The cat sees it. Run, mouse, run!
" That's the only kind of water we have, " she continued, tossing a stone into the pool, which lay on the outside of the bank like the white of an eye without its pupil.
After two hours the guide stopped the elephant, and gave him an hour for rest, during which Kiouni, after quenching his thirst at a neighbouring spring, set to devouring the branches and shrubs round about him.
He drew her farther on to a small pool where duckweeds made a greenness on the water. Faded water lilies lay motionless between the reeds. At the noise of their steps in the grass, frogs jumped away to hide themselves.
Some were lying down with heads raised and ears pricked forward; others stood on their feet, watching him; and still others were lapping water from the pool.
Ove builds a splash pond for him in his outside space but when someone calls it a splash pond Ove snorts that " Actually it's a bloody pool, isn't it! "