Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-14

the great head went down and ia, III.
natured and bellicose progenitor Of the
equally III natured and bellicose rhin-
oceros Of the twentieth century. charg,
ed the little giant who had disturbed
his antediluvian meditation.
The creatures great bulk and awk-
ward. uncouth lines belied his speed,
for he tore cyclonically down upon M
and had not the brain and muscle Of
the troglodyte been fitted BY heritage
and training to the successful meet
ing of such emergencies there would
be no tale to tell today of M. the son
of Nu.
But the young man was prepared,
and, turning. he ran with the swiftness
Of hare toward the nearest tree, a
huge. arboreal fern, towering upon the
verge Of the little clearing.
Like cat, the man ran up the per.
pendicular bole. his hands and feet
seeming barely to touch the project
ing knobs marking the remains Of for.
mer fronds which converted the tower
ing stem into an easy stairway for
such as he.
About NUS neck his stone tipped
spear hung by its rawhide thong
down his back. while stone Ratchet and
stone knife dangled from his gee string.
giving him free use Of his hands for
climbing. You or /, having once gain
ed the seeming safety of the lowest
fronds Of the great tree. fifty feet
above the ground, might have heaved
great sigh Of relief that we had thus
easily escaped the hiceous monster be-
neath But not sc M. who was wise
to the ways OF the creatures Of hia re-
mote age
Not one whit did he abate his speed
as he neared the lowest branch. nor did
he even waste a precious second In a
downward glance at his enemy. What
need indeed? Did he not know pre-
cisely what Ia would do?
Instead. be swung, monkey-like. to
broad leaf. and. though the chances he
took would have paled the face of
brave man today, they did not cause
M even to hesitate as he ran lightly
and swiftly along the bending. sway.
ing frond. leaping just at the right in
slant toward the bole of nearby jun
gle giant
Nor was he an instant too soon. The
frond from which he had sprung had
scarcely whipped up from beneath his
weight when Ia. with all the force and
momentum of a runaway locomotive.
struck the base Of the tree head on.
The Jar Of that terrific collision shook
the earth. There was the sound Of the
splintering Of wood. and the mighty
tree toppled to the ground with deaf.
ening crash.
NJ from an adjoining tree looked
down and grinned. He was not hunt
ing tn that day. and SO he sprang from
tree to tree until he had passed around
the clearing and then, coming to the
surface once more. continued his way
toward the distant lava cliffs, where
90. the man hunter. made his grim
lair.
From among the tangled creepers
through which the man wormed his
sinuous way ugly little eyes peered
down upon him from beneath shaggy.
beetling brows and great fighting tusks
were barred as the hairy ones growled
and threatened from above. But M
paid not the slightest attention to the
huge, ferocious creatures that menac.
ed him upon every hand.
From earliest childhood he had been
accustomed to the gatherings and
seedlings Of the ape people. and 90 he
knew that II he went his way In peace
harming them not, they would offer