She did not rush him, now that her young one was safe.

She approached more cautiously, and the cub had full opportunity to observe her lean, snakelike body, and her head, erect, eager, and snake-like itself.

Her sharp, menacing cry sent the hair bristling along his back, and he snarled warningly at her.

She came closer and closer.

There was a leap, swifter than his unpractised sight, and the lean, yellow body disappeared for a moment out of the field of his vision.