He whimpered, he grunted, he wallowed as he fed.

He had no time to look where he was going.

So, all of a sudden, he fell straight through a thick fringe of blue-berry bushes and went sprawling and clawing down the face of an almost perpendicular steep.
"The distance of his fall was not far short of thirty feet, and he brought up with a bump which left him not breath enough to squeal.

The ground was soft, however, with undergrowth and debris, and he had no bones broken.

In a couple of minutes he was busy licking himself all over to make sure he was undamaged.