to their servants, to carry away to the
palace. Afterwards the Englishmen walked about, smoking their cigars,
as they did not want to return to the palace so soon.

But four or five hours passed, and still they had not come back to the
palace. It was nearly evening, and still they had not come.

And in the village Gulab said to his Papa, who was the herdsman,
"Papa, I shall bring the buffaloes home now."

He went to the pond. But the buffaloes were not there! He shouted,
whistled, and gave all the buffalo calls he knew. But no answer!

He looked about, and searched everywhere, but he could not see the
buffaloes. What had become of them?

Then he happened to look far to the side, toward a lot of tall trees.
Something was happening under the trees! He could see a lot of things
moving there, but he was too far away to see what they were.

He ran toward the trees. Yes, they were the buffaloes! But why were
they there? And why were they behaving like that?

For he saw that they were pawing the ground angrily, and tossing their
heads and rattling their horns. And what was very strange, the
buffaloes were not looking at anything on the ground in front of
them. They were looking _up_, at the trees!

Then Gulab glanced up into the trees, and saw at once why the
buffaloes were behaving like that. But he did not waste a minute. He
ran to the buffaloes, shouting:

"Down, Baldo! Down, Chando!"

But the two biggest bulls and all the others glared at the trees and
snorted in fury.

"Down!" Gulab shrieked. "Down, or I shall spank you!"

He rushed to Baldo, and spanked him on the jaw. He rushed to Chando,
and spanked him on the jaw. He rushed from buffalo to buffalo, and
spanked each one on the jaw.

Then the huge animals that had charged the raging tiger, and that were
now fierce themselves, obeyed the little boy. They blinked, then one
by one lowered their heads. Gulab climbed up by Baldo's horns, and
seated himself on his back.

"Now turn around, all!" he ordered. And the buffaloes slowly turned
away from the trees.

Gulab looked back over his shoulder, and said to the six Englishmen
who were up in the trees: "You may come down now. My buffaloes won't
hurt you a bit, because if they try to I will spank them!"

Then the little boy took away the buffaloes, and the six big
Englishmen came down from the trees quite safely.

And now, do you understand what had happened? I shall tell you. The
Englishmen had forgotten