In the Morning of Time

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Roberts Charles G. D.. In the Morning of Time

CHAPTER I. THE WORLD WITHOUT MAN

CHAPTER II. THE KING OF THE TRIPLE HORN

CHAPTER III. THE FINDING OF FIRE

CHAPTER IV. THE CHILDREN OF THE SHINING ONE

CHAPTER V. THE PULLER-DOWN OF TREES

CHAPTER VI. THE BATTLE OF THE BRANDS

CHAPTER VII. THE RESCUE OF A-YA

CHAPTER VIII. THE BENDING OF THE BOW

CHAPTER IX. THE DESTROYING SPLENDOR

CHAPTER X. THE TERRORS OF THE DARK

CHAPTER XI. THE FEASTING OF THE CAVE FOLK

CHAPTER XII. ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS

CHAPTER XIII. THE FEAR

CHAPTER XIV. THE LAKE OF LONG SLEEP

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It was a little later in the Morning of Time–later by perhaps some two or three hundred thousand years. Monstrous mammals now held sway over the fresh, green round of the young earth, so exuberant in her youthful vigor that she could not refrain from flooding the Poles themselves with a tropical luxuriance of flower and tree. The supremacy of the Giant Reptiles had passed.

A few representatives of their most colossal and highly-specialized forms still survived, still terrible and supreme in those vast, steaming, cane-clothed savannahs which most closely repeated the conditions of an earlier age. But Nature, pleased with her experiments in the more promising mammalian type, had turned her back upon them after her fashion, and was coldly letting them die out. Her failures, however splendid, have always found small mercy at her hands.

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The man, with a wise fearlessness, ran on straight through the gathering line of bulls, the nearest of whom thrust at him carelessly and then paid him no more heed. Behind their ranks, hidden now from the sight of his pursuers, he swerved, avoiding the line of cows, ran sharply to the right, and came back around the end of the line to see what was going to happen. For all his grief, his heart was thumping almost to suffocation as his titanic vengeance moved to its end.

When the two raging Dinosaurs lost sight of their prey they stopped short, stupidly bewildered. Then they noticed the array of black beasts charging upon them. This, in their mad mood, afforded a new object to their rage. They plunged wallowing forward to meet the new foe. And at that moment the man, appearing round the wing of the black ranks, halted abruptly, and laughed.

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