Identifier: stnicholasserial371dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ing forward, staringenraptured, an elbow on each knee and a cheekin each hand. He was a stunted, hairy savage, and if he wasnot strong and swift, wild beasts or the otherHuman Things killed him. He had no weaponbut his hands and feet and teeth. He did notknow that he needed them. He could climb andswing himself from tree to tree better than the At last Anguss strange voice broke the si-lence and went on with the story. It is cold —cold —cold, he said. I see thatthe whole world looks gray. I see a great sheetof water. It cannot be a sea, because hugemonsters come dragging themselves down tothe shore to drink. The Human Things fly whenthey hear them coming. They cannot kill them,because they are too huge. How huge? asked David. They are mammoths, many times bigger thanelephants. Some have scaly hides and monstrousdragging tails. Some are covered with woollyhair. It was because he was so afraid of themthat the Boy began to think. He did not know 102 THE FIRST KNIFE IN THE WORLD (Dec,
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Mmr@cMT?®t that it was thinking, but it was. It was puttingtwo thoughts together. The others did not dothat. He liked to stay by the water, and it madehim sit still and watch it, and that made the be-ginning of thought. Did he look like the others? said Margaret A little different —just a little. Sometimes,but very seldom, there was one born whose headwas not quite the same shape as the heads of theothers His body was not quite so hairy, hemade a few more sounds, and he walked ofteneron two legs. But no one noticed, because no-ticing is thinking, and they could not fastenthoughts together. The Boy was that kind ofHuman Thing. He was taller than other boys,he liked to walk on two legs, he had larger eyesand they were not always shifting about —theysometimes looked at things. I like him, said Margaret. So do I, said Robert, who was the youngest.Just think of a fellow making the First Knifein the World, and he fumbled in the pocket ofhis knickerbockers. He was sometimes unhappy when

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