. The world of the great forest : how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work, and live . th their terrible teethsank into her back. The poor woman was so paralyzed by fear that shedid not utter a single cry. The leopard carried herinto the jungle and devoured her. The flesh of thewoman tasted so good, and the blood he licked was sosweet, that the njego thought it was better than all thekambis or anything else he had ever eaten in hislife before, and he said to himself: Why did I notdare to kill human beings before! They are harm-less. This one did not fight. What a fool I havebeen
. The world of the great forest : how animals, birds, reptiles, insects talk, think, work, and live . th their terrible teethsank into her back. The poor woman was so paralyzed by fear that shedid not utter a single cry. The leopard carried herinto the jungle and devoured her. The flesh of thewoman tasted so good, and the blood he licked was sosweet, that the njego thought it was better than all thekambis or anything else he had ever eaten in hislife before, and he said to himself: Why did I notdare to kill human beings before! They are harm-less. This one did not fight. What a fool I havebeen! From that day the big njego was a after, a man who had gone into the forest for wildhoney happened to pass near where the njego was,and he also was attacked and devoured. The njegobecame the terror of the people of that country. The human beings, missing their fellows, went insearch of them, and saw in one place the big foot-prints of the njego, and blood in another, and knewthat a njego had turned into a man-eater, and wasin the neighborhood, and had carried off their missing 66. He watched her THE BIG NJEGO A MAN-EATER ones. There was great sorrow among the villagers atthis discovery, for they thought more of them wouldbe slain and devoured. From that time on they never went alone into theforest or to the spring, and were always armed withspears or poisonous arrows. At night they keptmany fires burning in the street, and consoled them-selves by saying, No matter how hungry a njegomay be, he is afraid of fire. They also danced allnight and beat their tom-toms. During that time the njego kept far out of the wayin the jungle. But he thought all the time of theflesh of the human beings he had eaten, and said, I will watch my opportunity. The villagers, after a while, thought the man-eaterhad been scared away and had left the country, andthat he would never come back. So they stoppeddancing every night, and went to sleep without anyfear of the njego. But, in the c
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