care to kill him and felt reasonably sure that I should 
have to do jo in self-defense had I pr nroked him further. 
X wonder how he caught the Mouse. He could not have have 
had it long when I first saw him. He then had only its 
head in his mouth and was holding it “bottom side" up with. 
its white underparts showing and its pinkish feet moving 
co nrulsively and pathetically. Jiy first impulse was, of course, 
to kill hlra and rescue the Mouse. 
