The monster goes out as before, and the ant too, as you may think,
happy in knowing the secret. On the very next day he sets out for the
forest. He sees a frightful wolf. He says, directly, "Jesus, wolf!" and
he immediately becomes a wolf. He then goes to this wolf, and they
begin to fight, and he gets him down and chokes him. He leaves him
there, and goes off to the young lady in the island, and says to her:
"We have got the wolf; I have killed him, and left him in the forest."
The monster comes directly afterwards, saying:
"Ay! ay! ay! my head! Strike my head quickly."
She hits his head till she is tired. He says to the princess:
"They have killed the wolf; I do not know if anything is going to
happen to me. I am much afraid of it."
"You have nothing to be afraid of. To whom could I have told
anything? Nobody can get in here."
When he has gone, the ant goes to the forest. He opens the wolf, and
out of him comes a fox, who escapes at full speed. Malbrouk says,
"Jesus, dog!" and he becomes a dog. He, too, sets off running, and
catches the fox. They begin to fight, and he kills him, too. He opens
him, and there comes out of him a pigeon. Malbrouk says, at once,
"Jesus, hawk!" and he becomes a hawk. He flies off to catch the pigeon,
seizes him in his terrible talons, and takes out of his head this
precious egg, and goes proudly with it into the chamber of the young
lady. He tells how he has very happily accomplished his business,
and says to her:
"At present, it is your turn; act alone."
And again he makes himself an ant. Our monster comes, crying, that it
is all up with him, that they have taken the egg out of the pigeon,
and that he does not know what must become of him. He tells her to
strike him on the head with the hammer.
The young lady says to him:
"What have you to fear? Who shall have got this egg? And how should
he strike your forehead?"