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Before Adam

CHAPTER XVII
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He was caught with his wife in a tree down by the blueberry swamp.

The Swift One and I stopped long enough in our flight to see.

The Fire-Men were too intent upon their work to notice us, and, furthermore, we were well screened by the thicket in which we crouched.
Fully a score of the hunters were under the tree, discharging arrows into it.

They always picked up their arrows when they fell back to earth.

I could not see Red-Eye, but I could hear him howling from somewhere in the tree.
After a short interval his howling grew muffled.


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