The second gateway originally bore on either side, at the level of the point of its arch, a mystic tiger, carved on the face of a stone slab, holding in its right forepaw some animal, which the Gazetteer declares is an elephant but which more closely resembles a dog.

THE MIRACLE Kazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, his eyes half closed.

He lay down, with his nose to the warm coals and his eyes leveled between his forepaws, straight at the closed tent-flap.

Gray Wolf, his wild mate, lay near him, flat on her belly, her forepaws reaching out, her eyes and nostrils as keen and alert as the smell of man could make them.

Sitting on his hindlegs, with his forepaws resting against the tree and with his heavy tail giving him a firm balance, Broken Tooth began gnawing a narrow ring entirely around the tree.

One by one these lengths were rolled to the stream, the beavers pushing them with their heads and forepaws, and by means of brush and small limbs they were fastened securely against the birch.

Three-quarters drowned, he succeeded in raising his forepaws over a slender branch that projected from the dam.

His right forepaw was smashed.

He lay with his head between his forepaws, his eyes closed, and did not see McTrigger.

But now he lay back against the boarded side of the cage and eyed them sullenly from between his forepaws.

A ground-mouse rustled through the grass close to her forepaws, and she snapped at it, and closed her teeth on a rock.

Kazan dropped his head between his forepaws, and lay still, with wide-open eyes.

It was a quiet starlit night, and hours afterward Kazan dropped his nose between his forepaws and drowsed.

He laid his head flat between his forepaws.

His bowed legs were encased in loose black trousers, and had as many angles as the forepaws of a Dachshund or a Dandie Dinmont.

"With a shout of triumph the two boys carefully pushed on and, finding the den, quickly killed the cubs and cut off the right forepaw from each one to carry home.

" Crusoe seized the end of the line, which was fastened to the horse's nose, in his mouth, and lay down on a hillock of moss, submissively placing his chin on his forepaws, and watching his master as he stepped noiselessly through the wood.

"If I went back now out of fear of Pete Leddy," he continued, "that dinosaur would know that I was such insignificant prey he would not even take the trouble to knock me down with a forepaw.

He stopped short, put the goose on the ground, and stood on her with his forepaws, so she couldn't fly away.

As they ran, they spun round, made high leaps and beat their forepaws against their hind-paws so that they rattled.

Some performed a long succession of somersaults, others doubled themselves up and rolled over like wheels; one stood on one leg and swung round; one walked upon his forepaws.

That poor thing was soaked in mud, and stopped every now and then to rub his head with his forepaws.

He said nothing, but commenced to lick one of his forepaws.

He lashed out with his great forepaw; and if that blow had gone straight home the ribs of the wolf would have been smashed flat on his heart and lungs.

One slashing stroke of that vast forepaw, one slow closing of those cruel fangs upon skull or breast, and life would have gone out like a light.