Look," and he pushed the lioness's head with his foot, whereon it twisted round in such a fashion that they perceived for the first time that it only hung to the shoulders by a thread of skin.
"I am glad you did not strike a little harder," said Godwin, "or I should now be in two pieces and drowned in my own blood, instead of in that of this dead brute," and he looked ruefully at his burnous and hauberk, that were soaked with gore.
"Yes," said Wulf, "I never thought of that.

Who would, in such a hurry ?" "Lady Masouda," asked Godwin, "when last I saw you you were hanging from those jaws.

Say, are you hurt ?" "Nay," she answered, "for I wear mail like you, and the teeth glanced on it so that she held me by the cloak only.

Come, let us skin the beast, and take its pelt as a present to the lord Al-je-bal." "Good," said Godwin, "and I give you the claws for a necklace." "Be sure that I will wear them," she answered, and helped Wulf to flay the lioness while he sat by resting.

When it was done Wulf went to the little cave and walked into it, to come out again with a bound.
"Why!" he said, "there are more of them in there.