"I see in Dan a man who's different from the common run of us.

I read in a book once that in the ages when men lived like animals an' had no weapons except sticks and stones, their muscles must have been two or three times as strong as they are now--more like the muscles of brutes.

An' their hearin' an' their sight an' their quickness an' their endurance was about three times more than that of ordinary men.

Kate, I think that Dan is one of those men the book described! He knows animals because he has all the powers that they have.

An' I know from the way his eyes go yellow that he has the fightin' instinct of the ancestors of man.