monster

But at the same instant the crowd of guests rushed in alarm into the principal salon as if some frightful monster had entered the apartments, quærens quem devoret.

Thick, woolly hair covered every part of it, and a more dreadful-looking monster could not be imagined.

It is a most tremendous monster, like a great spider, with a body as big as an elephant and legs as long as a tree trunk.

It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly.