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Show SYNOPSIS A modern city boy tells of his strnngo dreams when, as Dig Tooth, ho lived In prehistoric times. When ho Is a more bnbr ho Is saved from a wild boar by the agility of his mother and his father attneks the savage pigs. Driven from homo by the Chatterer, ho goes to join tho folk, who live In caves In 11 bluff. lied Eye, a powerful (lavage, attacks him, and lie and Lop U.ir becomo friends Sobor Tooth, a tiger, appears. Tho folk drive tho tiger away, and Dro-ken Dro-ken Tooth Is klllid by a Ore man, who uses u strungo weapon, a bow and arrow, A fire man shoots Ulg Tooth In the leg. and Lop Ear savos his life. They capture two wild dog pups. Illg Tooth and Lop Ear are chased Into their cave by lied Eye, but they attack him with stones and drive lilm away. Lop Knr and Dig Tooth make a crude raft and sail down a river. They see the Swift One, a girl, but cannot overtake her. They have r narrow escape when lied Ee attacks them and mako a lone Journey Jour-ney to tho Fire I't-oplo's country. They ploy with the fire of tho Fire People Peo-ple and start a great conflagration. The Flro Pooplo drive them away, Illg Tooth has another narrow escape from lied Eye, and his sister Is killed by the fire men, who wound Lop Ear. The Tire People continue their deadly attack. at-tack. Ulg Tooth and the Swift One are married. lied Eyo pursues tho Swift One., He captures tier. Illg Tooth attacks him, and tho fight Is stopped by tho rush of Baber Tooth. The Flro People masaacro the folk. Big Tooth, the Swift One and n handful of the folic flee far to tho couth and sock a new home. Red Eye Joints tho Tree People. hairy than we, though we, in turn,1 were equally less hairy than the Tree People. It came to me Instantly as I looked at him. This was the terror of the northeast, of which the mystery of Biuoko was it token. Yet I was puz-tied. puz-tied. Certainly ho was nothing of which to bo ufrald. Red Eye or nuy of our strong men would hnve been more than n match for him. Ho was old, too, wizened with uge, 11 ml the hair on his face was gray. Also he limped badly with one leg. There was no doubt nt all thnt wo could out run htm and outcllmb him, He could never witch us; thnt was certain. But he carried something In his hand that I had never seen before. It was n bow nnd nrrow. Hut nt that time a bow and arrow had no meaning for me. How was I to know thnt death lurked In thnt lent piece of wood? But Lop Enr know. He had evidently teen tho Tire People before nnd knew tomethlng of their ways. The Fire Man peered up nt him and circled around the tree. And around the main 1 How Was I to Know That Death Lurked In That Bent Piece of Wood? trunk above the fork Lop Ear circled, too, keeping always the trunk between himself and the Flro Man. Tho latter abruptly reversed his circling. cir-cling. Lop Ear, caught unawares, also hastily reversed, but did not win tho protection of tho trunk until after tho Fire Man had twanged tho how. I wiw tho nrrow leap up, miss Lop Far, glanco against n limb nnd fall back to the ground. I danced up nnd down on my lofty perch with delight. It was a game! Tho Flro Muu was throwing things nt Lop Eur- as we sometimes threw things nt one nnothcr. Tho gnmo continued n llttlo longer, hut Lop Ear did not expose himself a second time. Then tho Fire Man gavo it up. I leaned far out over my hori zontal limb nnd chattered down nt him. I wanted to piny. I wanted to hnve him try to hit me with the thing. IIo saw me, but ignored me, turning ( his attention to Broken Tooth, who , wns still teetering slightly nnd lnvol-uutnrily lnvol-uutnrily on the end of tho branch, ' Tho first nrrow leaped upward. Broken Tooth yelled with fright and pain. Jt had reached Its mnrlc. This put n new complexion on tho matter. 1 I no longer cared to play, but crouched trembling closo to my limb. A second nrrow and n third soared up, missing Broken Tooth, rustling the leaves as they passed through, arching In their flight and returning to earth. Tho Flro Mnn stretched his bow ngaln, IIo shifted his position, walking walk-ing nwny several steps, then shifted It n hecond time. Tho bowstring twanged, twang-ed, tho nrrow lenped upward, and Broken Tooth, uttering n terrible Hcrenin, fell off tho branch. I saw him as ho went down, turning over nnd over, all arms nnd legs it seemed, tho shoft of the arrow projecting from his chest nnd appearing and disappearing with each revolution of his body. Sheer down, screaming, seventy feet he fell, smashing to the enrth with nn audible thud and crunch, his body rebounding slightly nnd settling down ngnln. Still ho lived, for ho moved nnd squirmed, clawing with his hnnds nnd feet. I remember tho Fire Mnn running forward with a stouo and hammering him on tno bead, und then I remember no more. Always during my childhood at this stage of tho dream did I wnko up screaming with fright to find often my mother or nurse, anxious nnd startled, star-tled, by my bedside, passing soothing hnnds through my hair nnd telling me that they wero thero nnd that thero was nothing to fear. CHAPTER VI, r ysriT next dream In the order of VI succession begins nlwnys with t-MrfZ'. tho (light of Lop Ear and my-U-J'.tyJJ BOif through tho forest. Tho Flro .Man nnd Broken Tooth nnd tho tree of tho tragedy nro L'onc. Lop Enr and I, In n cautious panic, arc fleeing through tho trees. In my right leg is n burning pain, nnd from the flexh, protruding head and shaft from either side, Is nu nrrow of tho Flro Mail. Not only did tho pull and strain of It pain mo severely, but It bothered my movements and mnde it Impossible ' for me to keep up with Lop Ear. I At last I gave up, crouching In tho 1 secure fork of a tree. Lop Ear went ; rtgnt on. I cnlled to him most plain-I plain-I lively, I remember, nnd ho stopped and looked bnck. Then ho returned to me, I climbing Into the fork and examining the arrow, lie tried to pull It out, but one way the flesh resisted the barbed bend, und the other way It resisted the feathered shaft. Also It hurt grievously, grievous-ly, and I stopped him. I For some time we crouched there, . Lop Ear nervous nnd nnxtous to be I gone, perpetually and npprehenslvely 1 peering this way and that, nnd myself I whimpering softly and sobbing. Lop Ear was plainly In n funk, nnd yet his ! conduct In remaining by me In spite of bis fear I take as n foreshndowltig of the altruism nnd comradeship that 1 have helped mnke man the mightiest of tl'c niilinnls. I Once again Lop Ear tried to drug the arrow through tho tlesh, nnd I nngrlly I stopped him. Then ho bent down mid I iiegnn gnawing tno snntt or me nrrow I with his teeth. As he did so he held the arrow firmly In both hands so that It would not piny nbout In the wound, und at the sumo time I held on to him. 1 often meditate upon this scene the two of us, half grown cubs, In the childhood of the race, and the one mastering his fenr, bentlug down his selllsh Impulse of lllght, in order to stand by and succor the other. And there rle up before me all that was there foreshadowed, nnd 1 see visions of Damon and Pythias, of life mo lng l crews und Red Cross nurses, of ninr-tyrs ninr-tyrs u ml leaders of forlorn hopes, of Fnther Damleii nnd of the Christ hlm-K'lf, hlm-K'lf, mid of all the men of enrth, mighty of stature, whoso strength may trace hack to the elemental loins of Lop Ear nnd Big Tooth nnd other dim denizens of the younger world. I When Lop Eur had chewed off the I head of the arrow tho shaft was with-, with-, drawn easily enough. I stnrted to go on, but this time It wns he thnt stop-' stop-' ped me. My leg was bleeding profuse-! profuse-! ly. Some of tho smaller veins had I doubtless been ruptured. Running out I to the end of n branch Lop Enr gathered gath-ered 11 handful of green leaves. These , he stuffed Into the wound. They accomplished ac-complished tho purpose, for tho bleeding bleed-ing soon stopped. Then wo went on together bnck to tho safety of the caves. Well do I remember thnt llrst winter win-ter nftcr I left home. I havo long dreams of sitting shivering In the cold. Lop Enr nnd I sit close together, with our nrms and legs about each other, blue faced and with chattering teeth. It got particularly crisp nlong toward morning. In those chill early hours wo slept little, huddling together In numb misery nnd waiting for tho sun- I rise In order to get warm. I When we went outside there was a crackle of frost under foot. One morning morn-ing we discovered lee on tho surface of tho quiet water In tho eddy where wns the drinking plnce, nnd there wns a great how do you do nbout It. Old Marrow Bone was the oldest member of the horde, nnd he had never seen anything like It before. 1 remember the worried, plaintive look thnt came Into his eyes ns he examined the Ice. 1 (This plaintive look always en mo Into iour eyei when wo did not understand a thing or when wo felt the prod of some vaguo and Inexpressible desire.) Red Eye, too, when ho Investigated I tho Ice, looked bleak and plaintive nnd 1 Htnred ncross tho river Into the north-enst, north-enst, as though in somo way ho con-' con-' necteil tho Flro People with this latest liti titwiti I ti r But wo found Ice only on that one I morning, and thnt was the coldest winter win-ter wo experienced. I havo no memory mem-ory of other winters when It wns so cold. I havo often thought that that cold winter wns n forerunner of the countless cold winters to come, as tho leu sheet from farther north crept down over the fnce of the land. But wo never saw that lee sheet. Many generutlons must have pnssed nwny before the descendants of the horde mlgruted south or remained und adapted adapt-ed themselves to tho changed conditions. condi-tions. Life was hit or miss mid hnppy go lucky with us. Little was over planned, plan-ned, and less wns executed. Wu ate when we were hungry, drank when wo were thirsty, nvoldcd our carnivorous carniv-orous enemies, took shelter In tho caves nt night and for the lest Just hint of played along through life. We were very curious, easily amused nnd full of tricks nnd pranks. There was no seriousness about us, except when wo were In (lunger or wero nngry, in which enses tho one was quickly forgotten for-gotten and the other as quickly got over. Wo were Inconsecutive. Illogical and Inconsequential. We hud no steadfastness stead-fastness of purpose, and It wns hero that the Flro People were abend of us. They possessed nil these things of which wo possessed1 so little. Occasionally, Occa-sionally, however, especially In tho realm of tho emotions, we were enpa-bio enpa-bio of long cherished purpose- The faithfulness of tho monogainle couples I have referrel to may be explained ns a matter of habit. But my long deslro for tho Swift Ono cannot bo so explained, explain-ed, any moro thnn can ho explained tho undying enmity between mo and Red Eye. But It was our lnconsequontlallty and stupidity thnt especially distresses mo when I look bock upon that llfo In tho long ngo. Onco I found a broken gourd which happened to He right sldo up nnd which had been filled with tho rnln. Tho water was sweet, and I drank It. I even took tho gourd down to the stream and filled It with moro wntr, some of which I flnutk and somo of which I poured over Lop Ear. And then I threw tho gourd nway. It never entered my head to till tho gourd with water and carry It Into my cave. Yet often I was thirsty at night, cs- pcclally nftcr eating wild onions and H watercress, and no one ever dared J ! leave tho caves nt night for u drink. H Another time I found n dry gourd, H I Inside of which the seeds rattled. I H I had great fun with It for awhile. But H I It was a plaything, nothing more. Ami jH ! yet It was not long after this that Hie H using of gourds for storing water be- H I en me the general practice of the horde. I H 1 But I was not the Inventor. The bun 1 H or wns due to old Marrow Hone, and H It Is fair to nssume thnt it wns the lie- H ccsslty of his givat age thnt brought about tho Innovation. H At nuy rate, the llrst member of tho H horde to use gourds was Marrow I to no. H He kept n supply of drinking water In H his cave, which enve belonged to his son, the Hairless One, who permitted. H lilm to occupy u comer of It. We used to seo Mnrrow Bone tilling his connl nt the drinking place nnd carrying It carefully up to his cave. Imitation was strong In the folk, and llrst ono unit then niiotheraud another procured H n gourd ami used It In similar fnsli- Ion. until It was 11 general practice with nil of us so to store water. slslsB .Sometimes old Marrow Bone had sick spells nnd was unable to leave H the enve. Then It was that the Hair- ' J less One titled the gourd for him. A little later the Hairless One deputed H the tnsk to Long Lip, his sou. And ufter that, even when Mnrrow Bono was well ngnln. Long Lip continued B carrying water for lilm. By and by, ' H except 011 unusual occasions, the men H never cnrrled uny water nt nil, leaving H the task to the women and larger ehll- (Iron. Lop Enr mid 1 were Indcpcml- H cut. We carried water only for our- H solves, and we often mocked the young H water carriers when they were called ' away from play to fill the gourds. H Progress was slow with us. Wo H played through life, even the ndults, H much In the same way that children H play, nnd we played as none of tho H other aulmalH played. What llttlo wo H learned wns usually In the course of H play and was due to our curiosity nnd H keenness of appreciation. For thnt , H mutter, tho one big Invention of tho H horde during the time I lived with It H wns the use of gourds. At first wo H stored only wnter In the gourds, In I in- H Itatlon of old Mnrrow Bone. H But one day some one of the women H I do not know which one filled n H gourd with blackberries and carried H It to the cave. In no time all the wo- J men wero carrying berries and nuts H nnd roots In the gourds. Tho idea. once stnrted, had to go on. Another H evolution of tho carrying rcceplaclo wns duo to the women. Without ,jj, M doubt some womnn'n gourd was too H small, or cle she had forgotten her H Kourd. But be that as It mny, aha H bent two great leaves together, pin- H uliig tho seams with twigs, and car- J rled home a bigger quantity of berries H than could havo been contained In tho H largest gourd. So far we got and nn farther In the H transportation of supplies 'during the ( H years 1 lived with the folk. It never H entered nnyhotly's head to weave a B basket out of willow withes. Some- aBVJ times the men nnd women tied tough flBVJ vines nbout the bundles of ferns and HHVJ brunches thnt they carried to tho H caves to sleep upon. Possibly In ten HBVJ or twenty generations we might have J worked up to the weaving of baskets. J And of this ono thing Is sure It once H wo wove withes into baskets the next H ami Inevitable step would hnve been the weaving of cloth. Clothes would havo followed, and with covering our H nnkeducfts would have come modesty. Thus wns momentum gained hi the younger worm, nm we were wnuuou bbbbbbbbi this momentum. We wero Just getting H Mn rled. nnd wo could not go far In n H single generation. We were without J weapons, without fire and In the raw H beginning of speech. The device of writing lay so far In the future that I H am appalled when I think of It. jH Even I wns once 011 thu verge of a H grent discovery. To show you how H fortuitous was development In those- days let me state that had It not been- H for the gluttony or Lop Enr I might H have brought about the domestication' 1 H of the dog. And this wns something ' H that the Flro People who lived to the '1 northeast had not ,et achieved. Tliey H were without dogs. This I knew from' H observation. But let me tell you how H Lop Ear's gluttony possibly set hack H our social development many genera- H Well to the west of our eaves was a H great swamp, but to the south lay u H stretch of low, rocky hills. Theso H were llttlo frequented for two reasons. 'H First of all, there was no food there of H tho kind we ate, nnd, next, those rocky H hills wero filled with the lairs of car- H ulvorous beasts, jH But Lop Ear and I strayed over to j H the hills one day. We would not havo H strayed had we not been tensing a ft- ' ' ' ger. Please do not laugh. It was old H Saber Tooth himself. We were per- H fectly safe. Wo chanced upon lilm In M the forest early In the morning, and M from the safety of the branches over- M head wo chattered down nt blm our U dlsllko nnd hatred, And from branch H to branch and from tree to tree wo H followed overhead, making nu Infernal U row uud warning nil tho forest dwell- eru that old Saber Tooth was comlmr. 'J We spoiled his hunting for htm. any- H way. And we made lilm good and U hungry. He snarled at us mid lushed H his tall, and sometimes he paused and H stared up nt us quietly for a long M time, us If debating hi his mind some way by which he could get hold of us. U But wo only laughed and pelted him M with twigs and tho ends of brunches. M This tiger baiting was common sport ' among tho folk. Sometimes half tho M horde would follow from overhead a M tiger or Hon that hud ventured out In tho daytime. It wns our revenge, for moro than one member of the horde, M caught unexpectedly, hnd gone the H way of tho tiger's belly or tho llon'is. H Also by such ordeals of helplessness H and shamu wo taught tho hunting mil- t To Bo Continued .H M |