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But his special retainers were the bear, the deer, the monkey and the hare. The bear often brought her cubs for Kintaro to romp with, and when she came to take them home Kintaro would get on her back and have a ride to her cave. He was very fond of the deer too, and would often put his arms round the creature's neck to show that its long horns did not frighten him.
They found the tiger cubs, drawn by the scent of blood, playing with the new kill, trying to fix their baby fangs into it, and leaping to and fro like a couple of kittens. "Clear off," said Jack, thrusting one of them aside with his foot, "we want this." The buck was only a young one, not more than forty or fifty pounds' weight, and Jack swung it up from the ground by its horns.
One day it happened that a tiger had killed a bullock. As he could not carry it to his den, he first ate enough of the bullock to satisfy his hunger. Then he came home to his den, and sent the tigress out to eat her share, while he guarded their two cubs in the den.
His gun had to be slung upright at his back to permit his passage between trees, but he soon came out upon the road-cut and then it was easy walking The fat little cubs felt heavy before Mike reached camp and Mike was only too thankful to deposit them in his bunk at the little cabin which he called his own.
Their bodies were tanned brown by sun and wind, and streaked and splotched with the blue and red stain of berry juice. They were jabbering contentedly and both were as plump and happy in their foraging as a pair of young cubs. Snow had begun to fall before Doctor Grenfell followed by the two lads returned to the fire at the cliff, soon to be joined by the boys' father, tall, gaunt and bearded.
She brought them on purpose to smell it, but at the first whiff their every hair stood on end, they trembled, they knew not why it seemed to tingle through their blood and fill them with instinctive hate and fear. And when she saw its full effect she told them "That is man-scent." Meanwhile the hens continued to disappear. I had not betrayed the den of cubs.
He became an exciting mystery to a knot of us imaginative young cubs, who sorted up out of the reminiscential rag-bag of high colors and strong contrasts with which the sensational literature that we most affected had plentifully stored our minds, a half-dozen intensely emotional careers for him. We spent much time in mentally trying these on, and discussing which fitted him best.
I have not forgotten an unpleasant morning I spent once up a tree, with a couple of lions and their cubs rampaging round me; and if it had not been for my father and Hendricks, I should have been there still, at all events my bones would, for nothing would have induced me to come down and be torn to pieces by the brutes.
He stopped at another street corner where a dozen youths were congregated. They were heavy-eyed, leering cubs, their hats were tipped back, and frowzled fore-tops stuck out over their pimply faces types of youths whom modest girls avoid hurriedly by detours. "Boys, folks are writing to the newspapers complaining that young chaps are insulting girls on the street corners of Marion.
He was woken up soon after dawn by one of the cubs tugging at his shoelaces in play.
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