"The reptiles have left him as hoofless as a beaver!" He was yet speaking, when the whole body of the terrified animals rose the little acclivity, and swept by the place where he stood, followed by a band of dusky and demon-like looking figures, who pressed madly on their rear.
Maybe in this wilderness we share, I'm just like the other humans: loud, stinky, clumsy, and hoofless; innumerable and indistinguishable; provisionally welcome, but not entirely trusted.