Childhood Memories

'A mad chase began. Round and round the hill-top he led them, now hopelessly out of their reach, now letting them almost catch his tail, now diving between them, now tossing them in the air with his huge and beautifully velveted paws and catching them again, and now stopping unexpectedly so that all three of them rolled over together in a happy laughing heap of fur and arms and legs'.

Dug this book out for my son yesterday - it was one of my favourites as a kid. The date of printing was 1975. I was just a little youmger than Stephen when I first read it