Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-24

was all alone The populous open
space had of a sudden become desert.
ed | sat down torlornty and whim-
pered could not understand Why
had the folk run away from me? In
later time, when came 10 know their
ways. was to learn When they saw
me dashing out of the forest al top
speed they concluded that was being
pursued hy some hunting animal BY
my unceremonious approach l had
stampeded them. 49,.
As / sat and watched the cave
mouths I became aware that the folk
were watching me- Soon they were
thrusting their heads out, A little lat
er they we're calling back and forth TO
one another. In the hurry and con-
fusion it had happened that all had
not gained their own caves. Some of
the young ones had sought refuge in
ether caves. The mothers did not call
for them by name. because that was
an invention we had not yet made. All
were nameleSs, The mothers uttered
querul0us. anxious cries, which were
recognized by the young ones. Thus.
had my mother been there calling to
me | should have recognized her voice
among the voices OF thousand moth
ers, and in the same way would she
have recC gnized mine among a thou
sand.
This calling back and forth CONT
nued for some time, but they were too
cautious to come out of their caves and
descend to the ground. Finally one did
come He was destined to play a large
part in my life. and tor that matter he
already PLAYED a large part in the lives
OF all the members of the horde. Ii
was he when ! shall cali Red Eye i'll
the pages OF this history-so called be.
cause of his infiamed eyes, the lids be-
ing always red, and, by the peculiar
effect they produced, seeming To adver.
tiSe the terrible sayagery of him. The
color OF his soul was red. ..
He was monster in all ways. Phys
iCally he was giant. He must have
weighed 100 pounds. lie was the larg.
est one OF our kind | ever saw. Nor
did / ever see one of the Fire People
so large as he, nor one of the Tree
papers happen upon descriptions of
our modern bruisers and prizefighters,
wonder what chance the best of
them would have had against him.
| am afraid not much of a chance.
With one grip of his iron fingers and a
pun he could have plucked muscle,
say a biceps, by the roots, clear out OF
their bodies. A blackhanded, loose
blow of his fist could have smashed
their skulls like eggshells. With a
sweep of his wicked feet Tor hind
hands, he could have disembowled
them. A twist could have broken their
necks, and | know that with single
cruch of his jaws he could have pierre
ed at the same moment the great vein
of the throat in front and the spinal
marrow at the back. ~: H.. +.
He could spring twenty feet horizon
tally from sitting position. He was
abominably hairy. 1t was matter of
pride with us to be not very hairy.
But he was covered with hair all over,
On the inside of the arms as well as
the outside, and even the ears them
selves. The only places on him where
the hair did not grow were the soles
of his hands and feet and beneath his
eyes. He was frightfully ugly, his fero-
cious grinning mouth and huge down.
hanging under lip being but in har-
mony with his terrible eyes. =.
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