I got down on the lowest branch, and saw them perfectly.

The children enjoyed the spectacle, siding some with this one, some with that, for we had never seen such beasts before, and thought they were only at play.

But by degrees their roaring and growling almost ceased, and I saw that they were in deadly earnest, and heartily wished neither might be left able to climb a tree.

But when the children saw the blood pouring from their flanks and throats, what do you think they did?
They scurried down to comfort them, and gathering in a great crowd about the terrible creatures, began to pat and stroke them.

Then I got down as well, for they were much too absorbed to heed my calling to them; but before I could reach them, the white one stopped fighting, and sprang among them with such a hideous yell that they flew up into the trees like birds.