Both have their poison-fangs wide open, ready to bite without yet daring, so mutually formidable are they.

After a certain period of waiting, during which the pair merely exchange threats, the stronger of the two, the one on top, closes her lethal engine and grinds the head of the prostrate foe.

Then she calmly devours the deceased by small mouthfuls.
Now what do the youngsters do, while their mother is being eaten?
Easily consoled, heedless of the atrocious scene, they climb on the conqueror's back and quietly take their places among the lawful family.
The ogress raises no objection, accepts them as her own.

She makes a meal off the mother and adopts the orphans.
Let us add that, for many months yet, until the final emancipation comes, she will carry them without drawing any distinction between them and her own young.

Henceforth the two families, united in so tragic a fashion, will form but one.