"I should so like to have a juicy beef-steak out of you, old fellow!" said he, addressing the dead animal.  "I say, Harry, don't you think we could manage to get it?  The other brutes will certainly grow hungry before long; and, as they don't want to eat us, while they are picking up their dinners I shall have plenty of time to get down and cut out a few slices.  I have my knife, and I sharpened it only yesterday."