cerviers

Updated: May 5, 2025

He made a rush, but the angry creature turned and dashed at his legs so viciously that in a couple of seconds he, too, found himself perched precariously on the canopy of his own bed, with "prick-ears" spitting and snarling on the coverlet. "Can that beast climb up here, like a cat?" he asked, with no little anxiety in his tones. "Oui," was the reply, "he can; but loup cerviers don' climb mooch."

- The Junior Classics — Volume 8 : Animal and Nature Stories