Then it was that she began going far out on the thinnest branches, where he could not follow.

Thus she might have got a breathing spell, but Red-Eye was fiendish.

Unable to follow her, he dislodged her by shaking her off.

With all his strength and weight, he would shake the branch back and forth until he snapped her off as one would snap a fly from a whip-lash.

The first time, she saved herself by falling into branches lower down.