From time to time, as the noise of the pack below eased down, I dropped a rock and started it up again.
Whereupon, from all around, the abuse of the exasperated Folk began afresh.

In the morning I shared the dog with Lop-Ear and his wife, and for several days the three of us were neither vegetarians nor fruitarians.
Lop-Ear's marriage was not a happy one, and the consolation about it is that it did not last very long.

Neither he nor I was happy during that period.

I was lonely.

I suffered the inconvenience of being cast out of my safe little cave, and somehow I did not make it up with any other of the young males.