Thecub is mine, and to my teeth he will come in the end, O bush-tailed thieves!"

In his teeth he held the assegai, yet dripping with blood, and in his hands the lioncub that, despite its whines and struggles, he grasped by the skin of the neck and the hind legs.

And perhaps he will be kind enough to come and see thecub later.

"Man-cub this, and Man-cub that," he rumbled, going on with his drink, "thecub is neither man norcub, or he would have been afraid.

It chanced that acub reporter sat in the audience, detailed there on a day dull of news and impressed by the urgent need of journalism for sensation.

JUPITER held a baby show, open to all animals, and a Monkey entered her hideouscub for a prize, but Jupiter only laughed at her.

A quarter-growncub, that had hitherto been unseen, now appeared, dropping from the branches of a sapling that grew under the shade of the beech which held its dam.

In a ship I belonged to, a smallcub Sperm Whale was once bodily hoisted to the deck for his poke or bag, to make sheaths for the barbs of the harpoons, and for the heads of the lances.

However, I once caught a young male of three years old, and endeavoured, by all marks of tenderness, to make it quiet; but the little imp fell a squalling, and scratching, and biting with such violence, that I was forced to let it go; and it was high time, for a whole troop of old ones came about us at the noise, but finding thecub was safe (for away it ran), and my sorrel nag being by, they durst not venture near us.

The hares had already half changed their summer coats, the foxcubs were beginning to scatter, and the young wolves were bigger than dogs.