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Then the wolf was very angry, and called Sultan 'an old rogue,'

and swore he would have his revenge. So the next morning the wolf

sent the boar to challenge Sultan to come into the wood to fight

the matter. Now Sultan had nobody he could ask to be his second

but the shepherd's old three-legged cat; so he took her with him,

and as the poor thing limped along with some trouble, she stuck

up her tail straight in the air.

The wolf and the wild boar were first on the ground; and when

they espied their enemies coming, and saw the cat's long tail

standing straight in the air, they thought she was carrying a

sword for Sultan to fight with; and every time she limped, they

thought she was picking up a stone to throw at them; so they said

they should not like this way of fighting, and the boar lay down

behind a bush, and the wolf jumped up into a tree. Sultan and the

cat soon came up, and looked about and wondered that no one was

there.