The bird made a startled rise, but he struck it with his
paw, and smashed it down to earth, then pounced upon it, and caught it in his teeth as it scuttled across the snow trying to rise in the air again.
"
Paw!" commanded Sylvie; and His Majesty gave his
paw.
Ferko felt so sorry for the little beast that he spoke to it in the most friendly manner, and washed its small
paws with the healing water.
The Englishman, finally concluding that he was a prisoner, saw no alternative open but to accompany his captor, and thus they traveled slowly through the jungle while the sable mantle of the impenetrable forest night fell about them, and the stealthy footfalls of padded
paws mingled with the breaking of twigs and the wild calls of the savage life that Clayton felt closing in upon him.
They slept on the same cushion with their
paws about each other, and gravely washed each other's faces.
I knew that I rose high out of the water, and, with clubbed rifle, dealt the animal a terrific blow upon the skull, that I saw Victory, her long blade flashing in her hand, close, striking, upon the beast, that a great
paw fell upon her shoulder, and that I was swept beneath the surface of the water like a straw before the prow of a freighter.
What that you say?' (pretending that the kitten was speaking.) 'Her
paw went into your eye?
Pistache, on a signal from his master, placed himself on this line, raised himself on his hind
paws, and holding in his front
paws a wand with which clothes used to be beaten, he began to dance upon the line with as many contortions as a rope-dancer.
'Strew some white meal over my feet for me.' The miller thought to himself: 'The wolf wants to deceive someone,' and refused; but the wolf said: 'If you will not do it, I will devour you.' Then the miller was afraid, and made his
paws white for him.
He was praying--raising his voice in thanksgiving at our deliverance--and had just completed a sort of paeon of gratitude that the thing couldn't climb a tree when without warning it reared up beneath him on its enormous tail and hind feet, and reached those fearfully armed
paws quite to the branch upon which he crouched.
They patted it with their little soft
paws --"Shall we make dear little muffins?" said Mittens to Moppet
Then she handed it through the bars to the rabbit, who took it in his
paws and opened it.