y£| The Yunzalin
When stalked and convinced of pursuit, they emit a
quick note of warning to all the denizens of the jungle.
Monkeys look up from their clutched fruit ; the lusty
crowing of cocks dwindles to a short responsive cluck ;
tigers pause in their'.dordly progress to wonder, with
such curiosity as befits a sovereign, what is astir.
NOON
There is a flash of something at play in the water,
and even as I look, it is transformed into an otter,
making swiftly for the shelter of the bank. He is shot
as he leaps across an open bit of sand, squeals and
tumbles over, rises, and makes for the willows only
to die at the " river’s lip. From the sunlit surface of
the water, curious heads emerge, to look swiftly about
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