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Seligor's Castle, fun for all the children of the world. Blogs
Thu, 01 Oct 2009
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The first axe, or was it, read the full story in seligor's castle.
SELIGOR'S
CASTLE THE FIRST
AXE
Outside the cave the
world was a blaze of white and green. From where he
was sat in the shadow of the over-hanging rock
Mo-ha could see a brilliant green and yellow lizard
flashing out and in among the flints and stones
that lay some little distance from the cave.
It was midday, and the Sun burned
high up in the heavens, pouring heat upon the Earth
with a fierceness that drove all living things to
seek shelter in the shadow of rock or tree. It was
the early days of the world, when men lived in
caves and trees, before speech as it is now known
to us had been invented, and there were no
adjectives and adverbs to worry the brains of
little boys and girls. Speech at
this time consisted almost entirely of nouns, names
of things and people, so that when Mo-ha said
"Food" he really meant "Is my dinner ready please?"
so you see the people then used one word instead of
many, after all that's what we do when we text
today. You would probably have wondered at Mo-ha
and his look, for although he was almost twelve he
was the size of a nine year old, he was covered in
short, fine hair, the face, hands, and inside of
the arms being the only parts of his body entirely
free; his eyes were smal, deeply sunk and set close
together; his nose was flat and broad, with only
the merest suggestion of a bridge; his ears large
and slightly pointed at the top. But, so small
Mo-ha was much stronger than one would think to
look at his thin legs and arms. He could leap
farther and run faster than most men can nowadays.
He could climb and run from tree to tree through
the grest forests that existed then almost as fast
you or I could walk along a country road. He could
hang from his toes from the branch of a tree for
ages and shin up the face of a rock like a
lightening
flash.
Behind Mo-ha, half asleep
and half awake, lay Nee-na , Mo-ha's little sister,
a year younger than Mo-ha himself. From time to
time her eyes, which were large and very
intelligent in their expression, would open and
shut like a cat's, as she watched her brother.
There was no change, however, in Mo-ha's attitude,
and at last Nee-na raised herself from the cool
earth and placed her hand upon the boy's shoulder,
and though she used only one word, she was probably
asking him what he was
thinking?
Mo-ha made no
answer, but, picking up a straight, sharp stick
that lay close beside him, he flung it at the
lizard, and Nee-na laughed and rubbed her hairy
little toes together with delight. The
Sun had fallen down the sky for some time -
and it would be about four o'clock in the
afternoon when Mo-ha accompanied by Nee-na,
left the coolness of the cave and walked to where
the stick he had thrown still remained, apparently
stuck in the ground.
When Mo-ha lifted the stick he was
greatly surprised to see a stone, a flint sticking
on the end of it. Somehow the end of the stick had
opened and the stone was wedged in the top, at that
moment Mo-ha hadn't realised what he had made,
quite by accident but, then, that is quite how many
a tool has come into being. Immediately Mo-ha
picked it up and without any more ado he swung it
round his head a few times and bought it down, hard
on a fallen log. They both jumped as the flint hit
the log and cut into it like it was a rotten.
Mo-ha
was delighted with his new, hmm! axe, and carried
it proudly as he and Nee-na made there way to
the spring to drink some water before settling down
to sleep for the night hours.
They were half way to the
spring, Mo-ha slightly in front when Nee-na, who
sensed danger quicker than her brother stopped
suddenly with a warning hiss. A heavy musk like
odour met Mo-ha's nostrils seconds later and
quickly he sprang to the nearest tree and climbed
hastily up to the topper-most branches, he moved
that fast, it seemed he was being hauled up by a
hidden rope. Nee- na was at the same time reaching
the upper-most branches of a mighty palm like tree,
which she was closest too when sensing danger.
The next moment the Striped One, old Sabre-tooth
the tiger, broke through the dense, fern-like
underbrush, and stood immediately below the tree in
which Nee-na cowered in complete terror.
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