d them if they would help to get his revenge. He made
quite a speech, and when he sat down, his uncles and cousins were very
much excited. They roared and howled. They said they were ready to
tear Mr. Man limb from limb. They declared they were ready to go where
he was, and gnaw him and claw him on account of the scandalous way he
had treated their blood-kin.

"But when Brother Lion's mother heard what they proposed to do she
shut her eyes and shook her head from side to side, and told the
uncles and the cousins that they had better go back home, all of them.
She said that before they got through with Mr. Man they'd wish they
had never been born. But go they would and go they did.

"So they started out soon one morning, and traveled night and day for
nearly a week. They were getting very tired and hungry, and some of
the younger blood-cousins wanted to stop and rest, and some wanted to
turn around and go back home. But one morning while they were going
through the woods, feeling a little shaky in head and limb, they
suddenly came in sight of Mr. Man. He was cutting down trees and
splitting them into timber. He had his coat off, and seemed to be very
busy.

"But he was not so busy that he didn't hear Mr. Lion and his uncles
and blood-cousins sneaking through the woods over the dry leaves, and
he wasn't so busy that he couldn't see them moving about among the
trees. He was very much astonished. He wondered where so many of the
Lion family came from, and what they were doing there, but he didn't
stop to ask any questions. He dropped his axe and climbed a tree.

"Brother Lion and his uncles and his blood-cousins were very much
pleased when they saw Mr. Man climb the tree. 'We have him now,' said
Brother Lion, and the rest licked their jaws and smiled. Then they
gathered around the tree and sat on their haunches and watched Mr.
Man. This didn't do any good, for Mr. Man sat on a limb and swung his
legs, just as contentedly as if he was sitting in his rocking-chair at
home.

"Then Brother Lion and his uncles and his blood-cousins showed their
teeth and growled. But this didn't do any good. Mr. Man swung his feet
and whistled a dance-tune. Then Brother Lion and his blood-cousins
opened their mouths wide and roared as loud as they could. But this
didn't do any good. Mr. Man leaned his head against the trunk of the
tree and pretended to be nodding.

"This made Brother Lion and his blood-kin very mad. They ran around
the t