Chapter Five . . .Great Escape

Over on the beach the bunny-eared beast was now wallowing like a puppy playing with that newfound plaything. He shook his head from side to side ball in mouth, pawed at it, and repeatedly chewed it. Presently he got his huge front paws on the thing and managed to tear the covering off. Then he threw his head back, jaws wide tossing it into the air.

This exhibition of primordial fury chilled the blood in the woman’s veins, but the Barbarian was too close to the primitive himself to feel anything but a comprehending interest. To this Wild Man, no such gulf existed between himself and nature, not as existed in concept for the woman. The rabbit-eared beast before him, to Oh!Amabay, was merely a form of life differing from himself mainly in physical shape.