ped into the alders.
"There's nothing there," said One-Ear.
Bodo knew better.
He noticed a hump among the leaves.
He reached out his hand and touched it.
It was a little calf that had been hid there by its mother.
It scarcely moved as Bodo touched it.
Its mother had taught it to lie still.
Many people might have passed it by.
But Bodo had sharp eyes, and besides he was very hungry.
So the boys killed the calf and began to eat the raw flesh.
They ate until they were satisfied.
Then they played among the trees.

THINGS TO DO

_Choose somebody to be Bodo and somebody to be One-Ear, and let them
show how the boys found the calf._
_Model a calf in clay._

XXI.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Why were all of the animals afraid of the rhinoceros?
How could the little hyenas hunt the big-nosed rhinoceros?
What could the Tree-dwellers learn by watching the wild animals hunt?

_How the Hyenas Hunted_

One day Bodo and One-Ear climbed a fir tree near the edge of a cliff.
They were watching a big-nosed rhinoceros.
It had just rooted up an oak tree with its twin-tusked snout.
Now it was tearing the trunk into strips as we tear a stalk of celery.
The boys watched it grinding the wood with its great teeth.

[Illustration: _The big-nosed rhinoceros_]

They were glad that they were safe in the fir tree.
They watched the creature in silence.
Suddenly Bodo gave One-Ear a nudge.
One-Ear looked up.
Bodo put his finger on his lips, then pointed toward the underbrush.
One-Ear stared with open mouth.
A whole pack of hyenas was on the cliff.
They were sneaking along toward the rhinoceros.
What hungry-looking creatures they were!
How their eyes gleamed!
The boys wondered what the hyenas would do.
They watched to see.
The big-nosed rhinoceros went stupidly browsing along the edge of the
cliff.
He did not see the hyenas.
The hyenas had learned that the rhinoceros could not see far away, and
now they were taking advantage of this.
They were too cowardly to risk a fair fight.
Even the mammoth and sabre-tooth did not like to encounter the
big-nosed rhinoceros.
Even they could not pierce his thick, heavy skin.
Even they feared his twin-tusked snout.
The hyenas crept softly from bush to bush.
They kept their eyes fastened upon the rhinoceros.
As he stepped on the very edge of the cliff they sprang out and began
to gr