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HOWARD WALDROP

THE DYNASTERS

Vol. I On the Downs

UG AND HIS FRIENDS STOOD in front of the hillock, wondering how to get the bear
out of the good cave. It was getting colder, and the other cave leaked.

Meanwhile the women and children were doing something useful like finding stuff
to eat.

The men looked at the cave.

"Stick holes in same time?" asked Ab.

"You seen thing?" asked Nu.

"No," said Ab.

Ug spread his arms wide, hairs fluttering in the cold wind. Then his son Nu
jumped up on his shoulders and held his hand up as high as he could.

"That big?" asked Ab, and looked at the cave again.

Mo was chewing one of the last leaves. They turned to him.

"Stick fire in face," he said.

They ran around gathering up stuff.

Afterwards, he was known as Mo the Smart.

They stood at the water's edge, in the snow, under the high white cliffs.

From the top of them you could see more land way way off, across the Big Water.
Only now, where the bottoms of the cliffs used to be covered, there was much
sand and rock. It went far out before the water began there.

"Bad feeling," said Ug.

"What happening?" asked Ab.

"No know," said Ug. "Will ask Mo."

On the way back to the cave, on the path, they threw their pointy sticks into
one of the Big Head-horn things that was browsing in the crusted snow. It took
them half the day to drag it back to the other people.