The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-06

Two ran off along the bank down
stream, and then clambered down to
the water. where Wau had come to the
surface struggling weakly. They glib
bered at him without any sane attempt
to help, and presently he went under
again. Two others threatened Ugh
lomi from the bank.
He answered back, shouts, vague in
suits, gestures. Then Uya, who had
been standing, hestating,' roared with
rage, and whirling his fists, came
plunGing through the water. His fol-
lowers came splashing after him.
Ugh-lomi glanced over his shoulder
and found Eudena already vanished
into the thicltet. He would perhaps
have waited for Uya, but Uya preferred
to spar in the water below him until
the others We're beside MIN. Human
tactics in those days, in all serious
| fighting, We're the tactics of the pack.
Prey that turned at bay they gathered
rush coming, and hurting the antler at
| Uya, turned about and fled.
| When he halted to look back from the
shadow of the thicket, he found only
three of his pursuers had followed him
across the river, and they We're going
| back again. Uya, with 4 bleeding
mouth, was on the further side of the
stream again, but lower down, and he
! held his hand to his side. The others
were in the river dragging something
to shore. For time at least the chase
was intermitted.
| Ugh-lomi stood watching for a space
| and snarled at the sight of Uya. Then
he turned and plunged into the thicket.
| In a minute, Eudena came hasten
| ing to, join him, and they went on
hand in hand. He dimly perceived the
| pain she suffered from the cut and
| bruised knee, e,and chose the easier ways.
| But they went on all that day, mile
| after mile, through wood and thicket,
| until at last they came to the chalk
land, open grass with rare woods of
| beach, and the birch growing near wat
| er, and they saw the Wealden noun
tains nearer, and groups of horses graz
! ing together They saw no men, for in
| those days men were still only just
| come into this part of the world, and
were moving but slowly along the river
ways. Towards evening they came on
the river again, but now it ran in a
gorge, between high cliffs of white
chalk that sometimes overhung it. And
high up the cliff was a little shelf by Il
tree whereon they clambered to pass
| the night.
They had had scarcely any food: it
was not the time Of year for berries.
| and they had no time to go aside to
snare or waylay, They tramped in a
| hungry, weary silence, gnawing at
twigs and leaves. But over the surface
of the cliffs were n multitude of snails,
| and in a bush We're the freshly-laid
eggs of a little bird, and then Ugh-lomi
| threw at and killed a squirrel in a
beech tree, so that at last they feu well.
| Ugh-lOmi watched during the night, his
chin on his knees; and he heard young
| foxes crying hard by, and the noise of
mammoths down the gorge, and the
hyenas yelling and laughing far away.
1t was chilly, but they dared not light
a fire. Whenever he dozed, his spirit
| went abroad, and straightway met with
the spirit of Uya, and they fought. Eu-
dena, too, dreamt evil things of Uya,
so that they both awoke with the fear
of him in their hearts, and by the light
of the dawn they saw woody rhinocer-
os go blundering down the valley.
During the day Ugh-lomi found great
flints sticking out Of the cliff face,
| greater than any he had seen, and he
dragged some to the ledge and began
chipping. so as to be armed against
Uya,when he came again. And at one
he laughed heartily, and Eudena
laughed, and they threw 1t about in
derision. 1t had a hole in it. They
stuck their fingers through 1t, IT was
very funny indeed. Then they peeped
at one anther through it, Afterwards,
Ugh-lomi got himself a stick, and
thrusting by chance at this foolish
flint the stick went in and stuck there,
He had rammed it in too tightly 10
withdraw II. That was still stranger
scarcely funny, terrible almost, and
for a time Ugh-lomi did not greatly
care TO touch the thing. 1t was as II
the flint had bit and held with its
teeth. But then he got familiar with
the odd combination. He swung II