Mingled with the mounted ones walked the bigger of the boys and girls, among the latter a woman with a baby crowing in her arms.

The giants sprang to their lumbering feet, but were instantly saluted with a storm of sharp stones; the horses charged their legs; the bears rose and hugged them at the waist; the elephants threw their trunks round their necks, pulled them down, and gave them such a trampling as they had sometimes given, but never received before.

In a moment my ropes were undone, and I was in the arms, seemingly innumerable, of the Little Ones.

For some time I saw no more of the giants.
They made me sit down, and my Lona came, and without a word began to feed me with the loveliest red and yellow fruits.

I sat and ate, the whole colony mounting guard until I had done.