HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, wheame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Coild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild--as wild as wild could be--and they walked i Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didnt even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail-down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, Wipe you feet, dear, when you e in, and now well keep house.
That night, Best Beloved, they ate wild sheep roasted o stones, and flavoured with wild garlid wild pepper; and wild duck stuffed with wild rid wild fenugreek and wild coriander; and marrow-bones of wild oxen; and wild cherries, and wild grenadillas. Then the Mao sleep in front of the fire ever so happy; but the Woman sat up, bing her hair. She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton--the big fat blade-bone--and she looked at the wonderful marks on it, and she threw more wood on the fire, and she made a Magic. She made the First Singing Magi the world.
Out i Wild Woods all the wild animals gathered together where they could see the light of the fire a long way off, and they wondered what it meant.
Then Wild Horse stamped with his wild foot and said, O my Friends and O my Enemies, why have the Man and the Woman made that great light in that great Cave, and what harm will it do us?
Wild Dog lifted up his wild nose and smelled the smell of roast mutton, and said, I will go up and see and look, and say; for I think it is good. Cat, e with me.
Nenni! said the Cat. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. I will not e.
Then we ever be friends again, said Wild Dog, arotted off to the Cave. But when he had gone a little way the Cat said to himself, All places are alike to me. Why should I not go too and see and look and e away at my own liking. So he slipped after Wild Dog softly, very softly, and hid himself where he could hear everything.
When Wild Dog reached the mouth of the Cave he lifted up the dried horse-skin with his nose and she beautiful smell of the roast mutton, and the Woman, looking at the blade-bone, heard him, and laughed, and said, Here es the first. Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, what do you want?
Wild Dog said, O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, what is this that smells so good in the Wild Woods?
Then the icked up a roasted mutton-bone and threw it to Wild Dog, and said, Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, taste and try. Wild Dog ghe bone, and it was more delicious than anything he had ever tasted, and he said, O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy, give me another.
The Woman said, Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, help my Man to hunt through the day and guard this Cave at night, and I will give you as many roast bones as you need.
Ah! said the Cat, listening. This is a very wise Woman, but she is not so wise as I am.
Wild Dog crawled into the Cave and laid his head on the Womans lap, and said, O my Friend and Wife of my Frien