Let's be friends.

I've got a fine windfall--and I'll kill you a rabbit." And still Oochak did not move or make a sound.

At last Miki could almost reach out with his forepaws and touch him.

He dragged himself still nearer, and his tail thumped harder.
"And I'll get you out of the trap," he may have been saying.

"It's the man-beast's trap--and I hate him." And then, so suddenly that Miki had no chance to guard himself, Oochak sprang the length of the trap-chain and was at him.