sudden—

The lion and lioness were just coming back, and when they heard the noise they came tearing home like the wind, and met little Jacko just in the mouth of the cave.

With a fearful roar the lion struck at him with his claws, but they only stuck in the—

Jacko wriggled out of it and ran on.

With another fearful roar, the lioness seized him in her teeth.

But Jacko was so round with eating cocoa-nut, and so slippery with banana, that he popped out from between her teeth, like an orange seed, and ran on.

And the next minute he was safe, and scrambling up the cocoa-nut tree at a rate which shook down most of the cocoa-nuts on to the heads of the lion and lioness.

So the lion had a sore head, and the lioness had a sore head, and the bear had a sore head, and they had nothing for dinner but