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In the Morning of Time

In the Morning of Time

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IN THE MORNING OF TIME


IN THE
MORNING OF TIME

BY

CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS

Author of “The Kindred of the Wild,” etc.

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NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS


Copyright, 1922, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company


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Printed in the United States of America


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I The World Without Man   1
II The King of the Triple Horn   20
III The Finding of Fire   41
IV The Children of the Shining One   70
V The Puller-Down of Trees   97
VI The Battle of the Brands   123
VII The Rescue of A-ya   149
VIII The Bending of the Bow   174
IX The Destroying Splendor   198
X The Terrors of the Dark   219
XI The Feasting of the Cave Folk   243
XII On the Face of the Waters   259
XIII The Fear   278
XIV The Lake of Long Sleep   295

IN THE MORNING OF TIME


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In The Morning of Time


CHAPTER I

THE WORLD WITHOUT MAN

It lay apparently afloat on the sluggish, faintly discolored tide––a placid, horse-faced, shovel-nosed head, with bumpy holes for ears and immense round eyes of a somewhat anxious mildness.

The anxiety in the great eyes was not without reason, for their owner had just arrived in the tepid and teeming waters of this estuary, and the creatures which he had already seen about him were both unknown and menacing. But the inshore shallows were full of water-weeds of a rankness and succulence far beyond anything he had enjoyed in his old habitat, and he was determined to secure himself a place here.

From time to time, as some new monster came in sight, the ungainly head would shoot up amazingly to a distance of five or ten, or even fifteen feet, on a swaying pillar of a neck, in order to get a better view of the stranger. Then it would slowly sink back again to its repose on the water.

The water at this point was almost fresh, because the estuary, though fully two miles wide, was filled 2 with the tide of the great river rolling slowly down from the heart of the continent. The further shore was so flat that nothing could be seen of it but an endless, pale green forest of giant reeds. But the nearer shore was skirted, at a distance of perhaps half a mile from the water, by a rampart of abrupt, bright, rust-red cliffs. The

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