Then they quickly sprang for the tree, but the old man lost his hold.
He fell and was trampled by the monstrous beast.
The rhinoceros tore up the ground with his horns until he had spent his rage.
Then he tramped off through the woods.
Sharpeyes paused again.
His voice choked, so that he could scarcely speak.
At length he told how he slipped down from the tree and found the old man dying.
He carried him out to a grassy spot, where the old man died.
Sharpeyes covered his body with leaves and raised a mound of stones above it.