you mean by 'so much noise'? What was the Thing that was got upon Friend
Elephant's back, that had caught Friend Elephant and was devouring him so that
he went writhing and wriggling for the pain of it, and the blood went streaming
down in floods? Moreover the Thing that was got on Friend Elephant's back
said, to my hearing, that a single Elephant was very short commons: but if It
could catch a fat old Tiger like myself that would be just enough to satisfy Its
hunger." Friend Ape said, "What was that Thing, Friend Tiger?" "I don't know,"
said the Tiger. "Ah," mused the Ape, "I wonder if it could be Friend Mouse-
deer!" "Certainly not," said the Tiger; "why, how in the world could Friend
Mouse-deer swallow Me? To say nothing of his not being used to meat food."
"Come and let us go back again," said the Ape.
Then they went back again to find the Elephant, and first the Ape went the
faster, and then the Tiger went the faster, and then the Ape got in front again.
But Friend Mouse-deer sitting on Friend Elephant's back saw them coming and
shouted. "Hullo, Father Ape," said he, "this is a dog's trick indeed; you promised
to bring me two tigers and you only bring me one. I refuse to accept it, Father
Ape."
Now when Friend Tiger heard this, he ran off at first as fast as he could, but
presently he slackened his pace and said, "It is too bad of you, Friend Ape, to try
to cozen me in order to pay your own debts. For shame, Father Ape! It was only
through good luck that he refused to accept me; if he had accepted, I should have
been dead and done with. So now, if you come down to the ground, you shall die
the death yourself, just for your trying to cheat me."
Thus the Tiger and the Ape were set at enmity, and to this day the Tiger is very
wroth with the Ape for trying to cheat him. And here the story ends.