_Sapristi!_ It was warm enough there.

But there was not room for the entire of me, so my feet and part of my legs stuck out.

Then in the night, when I slept, there came the wolves to eat the horse, and they had a little pinch of me also, as you can see; but after that I was on guard with my pistols, and they had no more of me.

There I lived, very warm and nice, for ten days." "Ten days!" I cried.

"What did you eat ?" "Why, I ate the horse.