His one outstanding defect was an entirely closed eye.

With the other, wide open and alert, he looked about him.

In spite of his one bad eye and his stiff legs he was inspired with the optimism of one who at last sees fortune turning his way.

He was rid of the man-beast, who had killed his mother; the forests were before him again, open and inviting, and the rope with which Challoner had tied him and Miki together he had successfully gnawed in two during the night.

Having dispossessed himself of at least two evils it would not have surprised him much if he had seen Noozak, his mother, coming up from out of the shadows of the trees.