He danced about excitedly a dozen feet from the fighters, Soominitik's blood filling him with a yearning for the fray and yet he was afraid.
Then something happened that suddenly and totally upset the maddening joy of his mother's triumph.

Makoos, being a he-bear, was of necessity skilled in fighting, and all at once he freed himself from Noozak's jaws, wallowed her under him, and in turn began ripping the hide off old Noozak's carcass in such quantities that she let out an agonized bawling that turned Neewa's little heart into stone.
It is a matter of most exciting conjecture what a small boy will do when he sees his father getting licked.

If there is an axe handy he is liable to use it.

The most cataclysmic catastrophe that cam come into his is to have a father whom some other boy's father has given a walloping.

Next to being President of the United States the average small boy treasures the desire to possess a parent who can whip any other two-legged creature that wears trousers.