Oh, here's a go! The horrid thing can climb!
Too late I do repent me of my crime!
[Terrific sensation chase! The Monster Man-trap leaps from bough to bough with horrible agility, and eventually secures his prey, and leaps with it to the ground.
Thos. (in the Monster's jaws). I'm sure you seem a kind, good-natured creature—
You will not harm me?
Monster. No—I'll only eat yer!
[Thomas slowly vanishes down its cavernous jaws; faint yells are heard at intervals—then nothing but a dull champing sound; after which, dead silence. The Monster smiles, with an air of repletion.
Re-enter William, from r., with Benjamin.
Benjamin. I'm very glad you came—but where is Thomas?
Wm. (severely). Tom is a wicked boy, and better from us,
For on the road he stopped to scale a wall!...
[Sees Man-trap, and starts.