The two-legged beast made him cringe deeper into his refuge, and his little heart was near breaking with the terror that had seized upon him.

He did not reason.

It was by no miracle of mental process that he knew something terrible had happened, and that this tall, two-legged creature was the cause of it.

His little eyes were blazing, just over the level of the crotch.

He wondered why his mother did not get up and fight when this new enemy came.