er with their lolling tongues. Then they look up at
the moon. Do you see what they are doing? Can you _hear_ them? They
are _howling at the moon in a chorus_. Dogs always howl at the moon.
Men do not quite know just why dogs do that. But perhaps they do it
because they are glad and satisfied, and are trying to _sing!_ When
_you_ sing, and there is a dog near by, you may hear him start
howling. He does that, I suppose, because he likes your singing, and
wants to join in the chorus!

So the wild dogs of the jungle also howl when they are glad. Then,
after the red dogs have howled as long as a song, they scamper off
into the jungle again. That shows, I suppose, that their howling was
really a song!

_Other Animals Come Alone_

The red dogs are the last of the animals that come in a bunch. Now you
see other animals coming one by one. A sneaking shadow there! It must
be a _hyena_. That is an animal that eats what remains from some other
animal's supper; so the hyena waits to see if a tiger or a leopard has
caught any supper, or else it will have to go hungry.

But hush! Here is a _red deer_ coming carefully to the water. This
animal is much bigger than the blue deer, and more able to take care
of herself. But, still, she comes very quietly, looking to right and
left to make sure that the tiger is not just in that place. She
reaches the water and starts drinking. But do you see how her ear is
bent to the side? The red deer is listening most carefully, even while
she is drinking!

But look, look! The bush behind the deer parts very slowly, and a huge
yellow form crouches there! It is the tiger!

He is not near enough to jump on the deer; so he takes one step
forward--as softly as a cat!

But the deer has heard the footfall! For she can hear even a leaf when
it falls to the ground. And in that one second, even while she was
drinking, the red deer has turned and leaped to the side. The tiger
has also leaped at the same time, and he aimed at the place where the
deer _was_. But the deer has just left that place, and the next second
she gives another leap, like a flash, and gets out of the tiger's
reach.

The tiger stands where he leaped, and growls with rage. He knows it
would be no use chasing the deer, as _the deer can run much faster_.
So he stands there, and growls for quite a while. Then, as he did not
get any supper that night, he can at least have a drink. So he drinks
and goes away, still growling.

Now all