So the Englishmen remembered that, and stayed up in the trees till the buffaloes were taken away. The buffaloes were taken to the pond; and as the herdsman would not bother to stay with them there, he left the buffaloes in the pond to do as they pleased till evening. The six Englishmen had their lunch there, when they got down from the trees. They gave their guns to their servants, to carry away to the palace. Afterwards the Englishmen walked about, smoking their cigars, as they did not want to return to the palace so soon. But four or five hours passed, and still they had not come back to the palace. It was nearly evening, and still they had not come. And in the village Gulab said to his Papa, who was the herdsman, "Papa, I shall bring the buffaloes home now." He went to the pond. But the buffaloes were not there! He shouted, whistled, and gave all the buffalo calls he knew. But no answer! He looked about, and searched everywhere, but he could not see the buffaloes. What had become of them? Then he happened to look far to the side, toward a lot of tall trees. Something was happening under the trees! He could see a lot of things moving there, but he was too far away to see what they were. He ran toward the trees. Yes, they were the buffaloes! But why were they there? And why were they behaving like that? For he saw that they were pawing the ground angrily, and tossing their heads and rattling their horns. And what was very strange, the buffaloes were not looking at anything on the ground in front of them. They were looking _up_, at the trees! Then Gulab glanced up into the trees, and saw at once why the buffaloes were behaving like that. But he did not waste a minute. He ran to the buffaloes, shouting: "Down, Baldo! Down, Chando!" But the two biggest bulls and all the others glared at the trees and snorted in fury. "Down!" Gulab shrieked. "Down, or I shall spank you!" He rushed to Baldo, and spanked him on the jaw. He rushed to Chando, and spanked him on the jaw. He rushed from buffalo to buffalo, and spanked each one on the jaw. Then the huge animals that had charged the raging tiger, and that were now fierce themselves, obeyed the little boy. They blinked, then one by one lowered their heads. Gulab climbed up by Baldo's horns, and seated himself on his back. "Now turn around, all!" he ordered. And the buffaloes slowly turned away from the trees. Gulab looked back over his shoulder, and said to the six Englishmen who were up in the trees: "You may come down now. My buffaloes won't hurt you a bit, because if they try to I will spank them!" Then the little boy took away the buffaloes, and the six big Englishmen came down from the trees quite safely. And now, do you understand what had happened? I shall tell you. The Englishmen had forgotten what the herdsman had told them--about keeping away from the buffaloes. The Englishmen had walked about, and had finally come near the pond where the buffaloes were.