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Before Adam

CHAPTER VII
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And such tag! We leaped ten or fifteen-foot gaps as a matter of course.

And a twenty or twenty-five foot deliberate drop clear down to the ground was nothing to us.

In fact, I am almost afraid to say the great distances we dropped.

As we grew older and heavier we found we had to be more cautious in dropping, but at that age our bodies were all strings and springs and we could do anything.
Broken-Tooth displayed remarkable agility in the game.

He was "It" less frequently than any of us, and in the course of the game he discovered one difficult "slip" that neither Lop-Ear nor I was able to accomplish.
To be truthful, we were afraid to attempt it.
When we were "It," Broken-Tooth always ran out to the end of a lofty branch in a certain tree.


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