rand c, ma petite?quot;

    Lizzie did not understand  as her son heaved Lizzie up in his arms for a good look.

    quot;Les poux. . .quot; s her son paid her no heed.

    quot;Voilà, ma petite!quot;

    tiger  an  t burned. It burned so brigs tail, tc tip. tride of tiger; its eyes like yellos round, innocent, toy-like ears; tiff  ificial look; t noise came. It rareh bloody bones.

    tiger kept its ing  of old. All its motion  s back, if it il it rolled over to ts ense muscles keened and sang. It  reacself in one liquid motion; notiful ts  ed nerves. Upon its pelt it bore t of t lived.

    t igo, but  stop ctle fingers and ried but  dislodge tiger stopped in its track s mysterious patrol and looked at  eyes of Neered , mineral eyes of tiger.

    It seemed to Lizzie t time, tiger and herself.

    trange e beast fell to   tle c lead it to eat meat. But only quot;as ifquot;. All  knelt. A crackle of sent; tiger ing out of cer.

    Its mind remained, o itself. e did not kno hinking. how could we?

    It stopped roaring. Instead it started to emit a rattling purr. time somersaulted. Space diminiso ttractive force betiger. All t existed in tiger.

    t came too ring by t tell you iger, nor  it   forced it to come to s knees, like a penitent. It dragged its pale belly across ty straotle soft creature s  folloine lengts ceaselessly tcail.

    ts nose and it buzzed and rumbled and took t idea .

    t scared and pummelled tle fists, but s let go