That night , Best Beloved , they ate wild sheep roasted on the hot stones , and flavoured with wild garlic and wild pepper ; and wild duck stuffed with wild rice and wild fenugreek and wild coriander ; and marrow-bones of wild oxen ; and wild cherries , and wild grenadillas . Then the Man went to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy ; but the Woman sat up , combing 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 Magic in the world . Out in the Wet 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 , come with me . ' ` Nenni ! ' said the Cat . ' I am the Cat who walks by himself , and all places are alike to me . I will not come . ' ` Then we can never be friends again , ' said Wild Dog , and he trotted 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 come 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 sniffed the beautiful smell of the roast mutton , and the Woman , looking at the blade-bone , heard him , and laughed , and said , ` Here comes 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 Woman picked up a roasted mutton-bone and threw it to Wild Dog , and said , ` Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods , taste and try . '
Wild XXXXX gnawed the 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 . '
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