These, However, Simply Cracked Against
His Hide And Splintered To Pieces On It, Sending
The Dry Mud Off In Little Clouds Of Dust.
Their
only real effect, indeed, was to make him still
more angry.
He stood stock-still for a moment,
and then gored the ground most viciously and
started off once more on the semi-circle round
me. This proceeding terrified me more than
ever, as I felt sure that he would come up-wind
at me again, and I could scarcely hope to escape
a second time. Unfortunately, my surmise
proved correct, for directly he scented me, up
went his nose in the air and down he charged
like a battering-ram. I fairly pressed myself into
the ground, as flat as ever I could, and luckily the
grass was a few inches high. I felt the thud of
his great feet pounding along, yet dared not move
or look up lest he should see me. My heart was
thumping like a steam hammer, and every moment
I fully expected to find myself tossed into the
air. Nearer and nearer came the heavy thudding
and I had quite given myself up for lost, when
from my lying position I caught sight, out of the
corner of my eye, of the infuriated beast rushing
by. He had missed me again! I never felt so
relieved in my life, and assuredly did not attempt
to annoy him further. He went off for good
this time, and it was with great satisfaction that
I watched him gradually disappear in the distance.
I could not have believed it possible that these
huge, ungainly-looking brutes could move so
rapidly, and turn and twist in their tracks just
like monkeys, had I not actually seen this one
do so before my eyes.
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