very angry, indeed, were the devils. they shook their horns and their shocks of red hair fiercely, and rushed to put on tiger skin trousers to make themselves look more terrible. they then brought out great iron bars and ran to where the pheasant perched over their heads, and tried to knock him down. the pheasant flew to one side to escape the blow, and then attacked the head of first one and then another demon. he flew round and round them, beating the air with his wings so fiercely and ceaselessly, that the devils began to wonder whether they had to fight one or many more birds.