Later when the Bear had ambled off the Fox returned and called the Cat down from the tree.
“You see, Mirri,” he remarked casually, “it wasn’t anything at all for me to get the best of the Bear!”
He could see that he had vastly impressed the Cat, so he let the subject drop.
“Come along, Mirri,” he said, “it’s time for us to go home.”
A terrible creature landed on his nose and drove it full of pins and needles