The neck was loosely set in a sort of socket fixed in the earth; this was all the monster's pedestal.

I saw that it barely needed a man's strength to send it toppling over.

Yet for a moment I could summon up none.

At length I put my hands to it and with an effort sent it crashing over amid the brushwood.
"The trough in which this colossal head had rested was about four feet in depth, and narrowed towards the bottom.

I put down my hand and drew out--a human thigh-bone.