"What a big bushy tail he has."
"He uses that in a peculiar way. When he sleeps he lies on one side, rolls himself up so that his snout lies on his breast, places all his feet together, and covers himself with that bushy tail. As the hair of the tail resembles hay, or the surrounding dried grass, it is likely to be passed by without being noticed."
"I wish we could get a shot at him."
"There is a fine pole," said Harry, whose keen interest was as great in that quarter as in the hunting.
Fig. 34. The Giant Ant-eater
It was an exceptionally fine specimen of shell-bark hickory, and the base was nearly six inches in diameter, but it was as straight as a line, apparently, and it was fully thirty feet to the first limb.