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Before Adam

CHAPTER III
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This he did again, and yet again.
Then I screamed...or shrieked--I cannot describe it, but it was a shrill and terrible cry.

And it seems that it, too, at this stage of the proceedings, was the thing expected of me.

From not far away came an answering cry.

My sounds seemed momentarily to disconcert the boar, and while he halted and shifted his weight with indecision, an apparition burst upon us.
She was like a large orangutan, my mother, or like a chimpanzee, and yet, in sharp and definite ways, quite different.

She was heavier of build than they, and had less hair.


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