We do not mean to kill them; indeed, their skulls are so thick that I do not think we could!--not that killing would do them much harm; they are so little alive! If one were killed, his giantess would not remember him beyond three days!" "Do the children then throw so well that the thing MIGHT happen ?" I asked.
"Wait till you see them!" she answered, with a touch of pride.

"-- But I have not yet told you," she went on, "of a strange thing that happened the night before last!--We had come home from gathering our fruit, and were asleep in our nests, when we were roused by the horrid noises of beasts fighting.

The moon was bright, and in a moment our trees glittered with staring little eyes, watching two huge leopardesses, one perfectly white, the other covered with black spots, which worried and tore each other with I do not know how many teeth and claws.

To judge by her back, the spotted creature must have been climbing a tree when the other sprang upon her.

When first I saw them, they were just under my own tree, rolling over and over each other.