For him, eating was the one and only excuse for existing.

In the next few months he had a big job on his hands if he kept up the record of his family, and the fact that Miki was apparently abandoning the fat and juicy carcass of the young bull filled him with alarm and rebellion.

Straightway he forgot all thought of play and started back up the slope on a mission that was 100 per cent.

business.
Observing this, Miki gave up his idea of exploration and joined him.
They reached the shelf of the dip twenty yards from the carcass of the bull, and from a clutter of big stones looked forth upon their meat.

In that moment they stood dumb and paralyzed.