You may let your hero kick or struggle, but he is in the claws all the time, it is a mere question as to how nearly you will let him escape, and when you will allow the pounce.

The show lady turned and made a motion which Casey mentally called a pounce.

"Ho, Major, come Pounce on yon men!

I saw one this afternoon pounce down on a squirrel, and he was carrying it off, when I shouted with all my might, and he let it drop.