I saw their eyes and heard them snarl.

Now, give me a burning branch and I will show you, brother, that you are not the only one who can fight a lion." "Let be, you foolish man," broke in Masouda.

"Doubtless those are her cubs, and if you kill them, her mate will follow us for miles; but if they are left safe he will stay to feed them.

Come, let us begone from this place as swiftly as we can." So having shown them the skin of the lion, that they might know it was but a dead thing, at the sight of which they snorted and trembled, they packed it upon one of the mules and rode off slowly into a valley some five miles away, where was water but no trees.

Here, since Godwin needed rest, they stopped all that day and the night which followed, seeing no more of lions, though they watched for them sharply enough.