Into this, as it gained strength, he placed many stones from a convenient pile, each fire- blackened in token that it had been similarly used many times.

Next, hidden under the water of the brook in a netted hand-bag, he brought to light the carcass of a fat wood-pigeon he had snared the previous day.

He wrapped the pigeon in green leaves, and, surrounding it with the hot stones from the fire, covered pigeon and stones with earth.
When, after a time, he removed the pigeon and stripped from it the scorched wrappings of leaves, it gave forth a scent so savoury as to prick up Jerry's ears and set his nostrils to quivering.

When the boy had torn the steaming carcass across and cooled it, Jerry's meal began; nor did the meal cease till the last sliver of meat had been stripped and tongued from the bones and the bones crunched and crackled to fragments and swallowed.

And throughout the meal Lamai made love to Jerry, crooning over and over his little song, and patting and caressing him.
On the other hand, refreshed by the water and the meat, Jerry did not reciprocate so heartily in the love-making.