MRS TWO-LEGS HAS A SON
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The days passed.
Things were busy in the forest, both above and below. All the wives had eggs or young and all the husbands had their work cut out to provide food for their families. Every one attended to his business and took no heed of his neighbour, except when he wanted to eat him.
The new animals had taken up their abode on an island in the river.
This was because the lion had met them one day on the borders of the copsewood. He had got out of their way, as on the first occasion; but he had given them such a look that Mrs. Two-Legs trembled with fright:
“He’ll eat us one day,” she said. “I dare not sleep in the meadow again.”