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He
kept
me
there
half
a
day
before
he
gave
up
.
After
that
,
when
Lop
-
Ear
and
I
were
reasonably
sure
of
gaining
the
double
-
cave
,
we
did
not
retreat
up
the
cliff
to
our
own
cave
when
Red
-
Eye
came
upon
the
scene
.
All
we
did
was
to
keep
an
eye
on
him
and
see
that
he
did
not
cut
across
our
line
of
retreat
.
It
was
during
this
winter
that
Red
-
Eye
killed
his
latest
wife
with
abuse
and
repeated
beatings
.
I
have
called
him
an
atavism
,
but
in
this
he
was
worse
than
an
atavism
,
for
the
males
of
the
lower
animals
do
not
maltreat
and
murder
their
mates
.
In
this
I
take
it
that
Red
-
Eye
,
in
spite
of
his
tremendous
atavistic
tendencies
,
foreshadowed
the
coming
of
man
,
for
it
is
the
males
of
the
human
species
only
that
murder
their
mates
.
As
was
to
be
expected
,
with
the
doing
away
of
one
wife
Red
-
Eye
proceeded
to
get
another
.
He
decided
upon
the
Singing
One
.
She
was
the
granddaughter
of
old
Marrow
-
Bone
,
and
the
daughter
of
the
Hairless
One
.
She
was
a
young
thing
,
greatly
given
to
singing
at
the
mouth
of
her
cave
in
the
twilight
,
and
she
had
but
recently
mated
with
Crooked
-
Leg
.
He
was
a
quiet
individual
,
molesting
no
one
and
not
given
to
bickering
with
his
fellows
.
He
was
no
fighter
anyway
.
He
was
small
and
lean
,
and
not
so
active
on
his
legs
as
the
rest
of
us
.
Red
-
Eye
never
committed
a
more
outrageous
deed
.
It
was
in
the
quiet
at
the
end
of
the
day
,
when
we
began
to
congregate
in
the
open
space
before
climbing
into
our
caves
.
Suddenly
the
Singing
One
dashed
up
a
run
-
way
from
a
drinking
-
place
,
pursued
by
Red
-
Eye
.
She
ran
to
her
husband
.
Poor
little
Crooked
-
Leg
was
terribly
scared
.
But
he
was
a
hero
.
He
knew
that
death
was
upon
him
,
yet
he
did
not
run
away
.
He
stood
up
,
and
chattered
,
bristled
,
and
showed
his
teeth
.
Red
-
Eye
roared
with
rage
.
It
was
an
offence
to
him
that
any
of
the
Folk
should
dare
to
withstand
him
.
His
hand
shot
out
and
clutched
Crooked
-
Leg
by
the
neck
.
The
latter
sank
his
teeth
into
Red
-
Eye
’
s
arm
;
but
the
next
moment
,
with
a
broken
neck
,
Crooked
-
Leg
was
floundering
and
squirming
on
the
ground
.
The
Singing
One
screeched
and
gibbered
.
Red
-
Eye
seized
her
by
the
hair
of
her
head
and
dragged
her
toward
his
cave
.
He
handled
her
roughly
when
the
climb
began
,
and
he
dragged
and
hauled
her
up
into
the
cave
.
We
were
very
angry
,
insanely
,
vociferously
angry
.
Beating
our
chests
,
bristling
,
and
gnashing
our
teeth
,
we
gathered
together
in
our
rage
.
We
felt
the
prod
of
gregarious
instinct
,
the
drawing
together
as
though
for
united
action
,
the
impulse
toward
cooperation
.
In
dim
ways
this
need
for
united
action
was
impressed
upon
us
.
But
there
was
no
way
to
achieve
it
because
there
was
no
way
to
express
it
.
We
did
not
turn
to
,
all
of
us
,
and
destroy
Red
-
Eye
,
because
we
lacked
a
vocabulary
.
We
were
vaguely
thinking
thoughts
for
which
there
were
no
thought
-
symbols
.
These
thought
-
symbols
were
yet
to
be
slowly
and
painfully
invented
.
We
tried
to
freight
sound
with
the
vague
thoughts
that
flitted
like
shadows
through
our
consciousness
.
The
Hairless
One
began
to
chatter
loudly
.
By
his
noises
he
expressed
anger
against
Red
-
Eye
and
desire
to
hurt
Red
-
Eye
.
Thus
far
he
got
,
and
thus
far
we
understood
.
But
when
he
tried
to
express
the
cooperative
impulse
that
stirred
within
him
,
his
noises
became
gibberish
.
Then
Big
-
Face
,
with
brow
-
bristling
and
chest
-
pounding
,
began
to
chatter
.
One
after
another
of
us
joined
in
the
orgy
of
rage
,
until
even
old
Marrow
-
Bone
was
mumbling
and
spluttering
with
his
cracked
voice
and
withered
lips
.
Some
one
seized
a
stick
and
began
pounding
a
log
.
In
a
moment
he
had
struck
a
rhythm
.
Unconsciously
,
our
yells
and
exclamations
yielded
to
this
rhythm
.
It
had
a
soothing
effect
upon
us
;
and
before
we
knew
it
,
our
rage
forgotten
,
we
were
in
the
full
swing
of
a
hee
-
hee
council
.
