Sure-dart

The boys did not talk much as they went along. It would have been dangerous, for the enemy just beyond had good ears; and then, it was not the way of the people of that day to t...

Sure-dart plunged on into the little cave till he came to the end. The distance was not more than twenty feet, and none too far to seem clear of the pursuing horror. It is to be...

But this was merely what he had seen at first, and not on the second look. What he had discovered then was a hand grasping the bone, and an arm following the hand up farther out...

A mile or so back of the rather low ridges on the west the hills proper began, and these straggled on, with some valley and morass between, for eleven or twelve miles. After tha...

The howling among the woods grew louder, and in another three minutes Big-axe, who was now walking with his head screwed around over his shoulder, saw a long string of leaping s...

Before this there was confusion among the poor women and children and the others of the escaping party. They had seen the three warriors coming fast on in their wake, and they k...

It was not a very loud noise, but it was distinct from the other sounds, many and riotously blended and strange though some of them were. It was an animal noise, to speak of it...

As Sure-dart’s face was upturned to the sky he could not see the nearing monster, and he dared not take the chance of raising his head for a look. He heard the great beast comin...

The two death-beasts exchanged a sputtering hiss or two, as they came on, and as soon as they were together they ranged up side and side, as if they had been a yoke of giant oxe...

The best that Sure-dart and the man could do in the way of providing dinner for the company was to catch a big eel, and to knock over with a stone what they called a worm-tail....

Long-shanks ran so well that he turned the corner in the wall of the ravine, where the part of it took its back curve, with the monster still several yards behind him. Then Hop-...

There is no need to give the hunters’ story in their own words. At best it would have to be interpreted out of what we should call a monkey-like chattering, broken with queer cl...

The curiosity of the camp was now turned toward the piece of cooked scamperer. It must be remembered that eating and drinking, to an uncivilized people, is a matter of the first...

But this giving way was only for a few minutes; after that, by a mighty effort, the chief pulled himself together, and was again his sturdy and composed self. When he went back...

Sure-dart was still on the wall, and here he was now joined by Hop-foot, who was yelping and snorting like some wild animal, which, in fact, we might almost say he was. As he sa...

Sure-dart waited till the retiring gang had reached the hill-slopes, and some had gone among the trees, and then he started. He took four young fellows and five of the more acti...

It was a big party that now came racing and yelling down the hill-side. Nevertheless, it effected nothing, for Big-axe and the rest had too good a start, and were too fast even...

Just what was said and thought, and just how the next few minutes passed, it would be impossible with any definiteness to say. At a time like this things big and little are gene...

Wing-foot and Sure-dart were meanwhile slipping softly but quickly toward the spring. As it was so near they were speedily there, and without losing a moment began their work. T...

It was pretty nearly “now or never” with Sure-dart. He had no serious hope that Big-axe would do anything in the way of a rescue. How, as things stood, could he? Once out in the...

But the cautious chief would not at first take anything for granted. He sent out Wing-foot and another swift runner as scouts, and it was not till they had come back and reporte...

The wood of the yew-like conifer, if that was what Sure-dart had made his bow of, could not have been very hard, and though no dull axe of our day could have been so dull as the...

There was now such a strain of holding the whole body at the tension of a strong spring, as would have been a pull on anybody’s nerves. Even those almost animal men felt it, and...

As the chief spoke he raised his own bow, first getting such a balance that the unsteady little craft would not balk his aim, and the next moment he let drive.

As soon as Sure-dart got righted and his head out of water, he looked around. He knew what must have happened, which was that the chief’s spear had broken and so upset his balan...

He could make out nothing strange at first, for only the spear-teeth were in sight, but just a few yards off a hump of water was going away in a suspicious undulation. He turned...