Indeed, once in the village of Anis some plucky labourers surprised him as he was scaling Morio's wall, and, as they had flails, scythes, and pitchforks, they fell upon him and pressed him hard.

One of them, a very quick and courageous man, thought to have run him through with his pitchfork; but he slipped in a pool and so let him escape.

The others would certainly have caught him had they not waited to pick up the rabbits and fowls that he dropped in his flight.
Those labourers declared to the Elders of the village that the monster's form and proportions appeased to them human enough except for his head and his tail, which were, in truth, terrifying.
XI.

THE DRAGON OF ALCA (Continuation) On that day Kraken came back to his cavern sooner than usual.

He took from his head his sealskin helmet with its two bull's horns and its visor trimmed with terrible hooks.