foxes crying hard by, and the noise of mammoths down the gorge, and the

hyænas yelling and laughing far away. It 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. And always Ugh-lomi was

paralysed so that he could not smite nor run, and then he would awake

suddenly. Eudena, 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 a woolly rhinoceros go blundering down the valley.

During the day they caressed one another and were glad of the sunshine,

and Eudena's leg was so stiff she sat on the ledge all 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 it about in derision. It had a hole

in it. They stuck their fingers through it, it was very funny indeed.

Then they peeped at one another 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 to

withdraw it. That was still stranger--scarcely funny, terrible almost,

and for a time Ugh-lomi did not greatly care to touch the thing. It was

as if the flint had bit and held with its teeth. But then he got

familiar with the odd combination. He swung it about, and perceived that

the stick with the heavy stone on the end struck a better blow than

anything he knew. He went to and fro swinging it, and striking with it;

but later he tired of it and threw it aside. In the afternoon he went

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