With a tremendous leap the cat broke through the tree-top and down on the ground, with the wriggling bird in his jaws, and trotted off howling.
Topanashka had witnessed the performance with interest and with genuine pleasure.

He admired the strength and the swiftness of the animal hunter.

Unconsciously his thought turned back to the intended prayer, and he earnestly addressed it now to Those Above, that they might give to his heart the strength which the panther had shown in his limbs.
Placing two sticks on the ground before him and a stone over them, he rose to go.

But another sight met his eyes, and he stood still as if rooted to the soil, gazed and gazed.

His eyes opened wide, then his expression became dark and almost fierce.
On the clear space beyond the pines on which the puma had caught his prey, a woman sat near a cedar-bush; and in the shade of the bush a man rested.