you 're for a fight , are you ? '' sneered the Dwarf . `` I might tell you to hit one of your own weight , but I 'm not afraid of six of you . Yah ! mammy 's brat ! Look here , young Blinkers , I do n't want to hurt you . Just turn old Dobbin 's head , and trot back to your mammy , Queen Rosalind , at Pantouflia . Does she know you 're out ? '' `` I 'll be into you , pretty quick , '' said Ricardo . `` But why do I bandy words with a miserable peasant ? '' `` And do n't get much the best of them either , '' said the Dwarf , provokingly . `` But I 'll fight , if you will have it . '' The prince leaped from his horse , leaving Pepper on the saddle-bow . No sooner had he touched the ground than the Dwarf shouted : `` Hi ! to him , Billy ! to him , Daniel ! at him , good lions , at him ! '' and , with an awful roar , two lions rushed from a neighbouring potato-patch and made for Ricardo . These were not ordinary lions , history avers , each having two heads , each being eight feet high , with four rows of teeth ; their skins as hard as nails , and bright red , like morocco . -LCB- 135 -RCB- The prince did not lose his presence of mind ; hastily he threw the cake of crocodiles ' eggs , millet-seed , and sugar-candy to the lions .
This is a dainty which lions can never resist , and running greedily XXXXX it , with four tremendous snaps , they got hold of each other by their jaws , and their eight rows of teeth were locked fast in a grim and deadly struggle for existence !
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