going to live with the tree people all of which is neither here nor there the swift one was different from any of the females of the and i had a liking for from the first her and gentleness attracted me she was never rough and she never fought she always ran away and right here may be noted the significance of the of her she was a better than ear or i when we played we could never catch her except by accident while she could catch us at will she was before adam remarkably swift in all her movements and she had a genius for judging distances that was equalled only by her daring excessively timid in all other matters she was without fear when it came to climbing or running through the trees and ear and i were awkward and and cowardly in comparison she was an orphan we never saw her with any one and there was no telling how long she had lived alone in the world she must have learned early in her helpless childhood that safety lay only in flight she was very wise and very discreet it became a sort of game with ear and me to try to find where she lived it was certain that she had a tree shelter somewhere and not very far away but trail her as we would we could never find it she was willing enough to join with us at play in the day time but the secret of her she guarded chapter xi it must be remembered that the description i have just given of the swift one is not the description that would have been given by big tooth my other self of my dreams my it is by the medium of my dreams that i the modem man look through the eyes of big tooth and see and so it is with much that i of the events of that far oflf time there is a about my impressions that is too to inflict upon my readers i shall merely pause here in my narrative to indicate this this mixing of personality it is i the modem who look back across the centuries and weigh and the emotions and motives of big tooth my other self he did not bother to weigh and he was simplicity itself he just lived events without ever pondering why he lived them in his particular and often way before adam as i my real self grew older i entered more and more into the substance of my dreams one may dream and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming and if the dream be bad comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream this is a common experience with all of us and so it was that i the modem often entered into my dreaming and in the consequent strange personality was both actor and spectator and right often have i the modem been and vexed by the foolishness and general all round stupidity of myself the primitive and one thing more before i end this have you ever dreamed that you dreamed dogs dream horses dream all animals dream in big tooth s day the dreamed and when the dreams were bad they howled in their sleep now i the modem have lain down with big tooth and dreamed his dreams this is getting almost beyond the grip of the intellect i know but i do know that i have before adam done this thing and let me tell you that the flying and crawling dreams of big tooth were as vivid to him as the falling through space dream is to you for big tooth also had an other self and when he slept that other self dreamed back into the past back to the winged and the clash and the of and beyond that to the like life of the tiny and far still to the of the sea i cannot i dare not say more it is all too vague and complicated and awful i can only hint of those vast and terrific through which i have peered at the of life not upward from the to man but upward from the worm and now to return to my tale i big tooth knew not the swift one as a creature of i before adam finer and bodily with eyes and a bridge to her nose and nostrils that made toward beauty i her only as the mild eyed young female who made soft sounds and did not fight i liked to play with her i knew not why to seek food in her company and to go bird with her and i must confess she taught me things about tree climbing she was very wise very strong and no clinging skirts her movements it was about this time that a slight arose on the part of ear he got into the habit of wandering oflf in the direction of the tree where my mother lived he had taken a liking to my vicious sister and the had come to him also there were several other young people of the couples that lived in the neighborhood and ear played with these young people i could never get the swift one to join with them whenever i visited them she dropped behind and disappeared i remember once making a strong effort to persuade her but before adam she cast backward anxious glances then retreated calling to me from a tree so it was that i did not make a practice of accompanying ear when he went to visit his new friends the swift one and i were good comrades but try as i would i could never find her undoubtedly had nothing happened we would have soon for our liking was mutual but the something did happen one morning the swift one not 