{"product_id":"2940013770577","title":"The Fight in the Lion's Thicket","description":"Ugh-Lomi lay still, his back against an alder, and his thigh was a red\u003cbr\u003emass terrible to see. No civilised man could have lived who had been\u003cbr\u003eso sorely wounded, but Eudena got him thorns to close his wounds, and\u003cbr\u003esquatted beside him day and night, smiting the flies from him with a\u003cbr\u003efan of reeds by day, and in the night threatening the hyænas who came\u003cbr\u003etoo near with the first axe in her hand; and in a little while he\u003cbr\u003ebegan to heal. It was high summer, and there was no rain. Little food\u003cbr\u003ethey had during the first two days his wounds were open. In the low\u003cbr\u003eplace where they hid were no roots nor little beasts, and the stream,\u003cbr\u003ewith its water-snails and fish, was, in the open a hundred yards away.\u003cbr\u003eShe could not go abroad by day for fear of the tribe, her brothers and\u003cbr\u003esisters, nor by night for fear of the beasts, both on his account and\u003cbr\u003ehers. So they shared the lion with the vultures. But there was a\u003cbr\u003etrickle of water near by, and Eudena brought him plenty in her hands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere Ugh-lomi lay was well hidden from the tribe by a thicket of\u003cbr\u003ealders, and all fenced about with bulrushes and tall reeds. The dead\u003cbr\u003elion he had killed lay near his old lair on a place of trampled reeds\u003cbr\u003efifty yards away, in sight through the reed-stems, and the vultures\u003cbr\u003efought each other for the choicest pieces and kept the jackals off\u003cbr\u003ehim. Very soon a cloud of flies that looked like bees hung over him,\u003cbr\u003eand Ugh-lomi could hear their humming. And when Ugh-lomi's flesh was\u003cbr\u003ealready healing--and it was not many days before that began--only a\u003cbr\u003efew bones of the lion remained scattered and shining white.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the most part Ugh-lomi sat still during the day, looking before\u003cbr\u003ehim at nothing, sometimes he would mutter of the horses and bears and\u003cbr\u003elions, and sometimes he would beat the ground with the first axe and\u003cbr\u003esay the names of the tribe--he seemed to have no fear of bringing the\u003cbr\u003etribe--for hours together. But chiefly he slept, dreaming little\u003cbr\u003ebecause of his loss of blood and the slightness of his food. During\u003cbr\u003ethe short summer night both kept awake. All the while the darkness\u003cbr\u003elasted things moved about them, things they never saw by day. For some\u003cbr\u003enights the hyænas did not come, and then one moonless night near a\u003cbr\u003edozen came and fought for what was left of the lion. The night was a\u003cbr\u003etumult of growling, and Ugh-lomi and Eudena could hear the bones snap\u003cbr\u003ein their teeth. But they knew the hyæna dare not attack any creature\u003cbr\u003ealive and awake, and so they were not greatly afraid.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079663632624,"sku":"2940013770577","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013770577_p0.jpg?v=1763590033","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013770577","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}