He surveyed the prize; walked around it; smelt at it from a safe distance; walked around it again; grew bolder, and took a closer smell; then lifted his lip and made a gingerly snatch at it, just missing it; made another, and another; began to enjoy the diversion; subsided to his stomach with the beetle between his paws, and continued his experiments; grew weary at last, and then indifferent and absent-minded.
Rámeredt a zsákmányra, körüljárta, biztos távolságból feléje szaglászott, újra körüljárta, majd vakmerően közelebbről szagolta, száját feltátotta, egyszer-kétszer feléje is kapott. Tetszett neki a játék.