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Page 39
_Uk:_
Be still!
(_Turning to the woman behind him_)
Thou seest that they become still. None save me can make his kind be
still, except perhaps the chief of the apes, when in the night he deems
he hears a serpent.... At whom dost thou stare so long? At Oan? Oan,
come to me!
_Oan:_
I am thy cub.
_Uk:_
Oan, thou art a fool!
_Ok and Un:_
Ho! ho! Oan is a fool!
_All the Tribe:_
Ho! ho! Oan is a fool!
_Oan:_
Why am I a fool?
_Uk:_
Dost thou not chant strange words? Last night I heard thee chant strange
words at the mouth of thy cave.
_Oan:_
Ay! they are marvellous words; they were born within me in the dark.
_Uk:_
Art thou a woman, that thou shouldst bring forth? Why dost thou not
sleep when it is dark?
_Oan:_
I did half sleep; perhaps I dreamed.
_Uk:_
And why shouldst thou dream, not having had more than thy portion of
flesh? Hast thou slain a deer in the forest and brought it not to the
Stone?
_All the Tribe:_
Wa! Wa! He hath slain in the forest, and brought not the meat to the
Stone!
_Uk:_
Be still, ye!
(_To Ala_)
Thou seest that they become still.... Oan, hast thou slain and kept to
thyself?
_Oan:_
Nay, thou knowest that I am not apt at the chase. Also it irks me to
squat on a branch all day above a path, bearing a rock upon my thighs.
Those words did but awaken within me when I was peaceless in the night.
_Uk:_
And why wast thou peaceless in the night?
_Oan:_
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