"Hear what the King says! We must not cut the victim's throat.

We must bind a child with cords and roast it alive for him!" Felix hardly knew what to do or say at this atrocious proposal.

"If you roast it alive," he cried, "you deserve to be all scorched up with lightning.

Take care what you do! Spare the child's life! I will have no victim.

Beware how you anger me!" But the savage no sooner says than he does.