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Updated: May 26, 2025

Besieging wild beasts could embarrass but could not greatly alarm the family, for, with store of wood and food and water, the besieged could wait, and it was not well for the flesh-seeking quadruped to approach within a long spear-thrust's length of the cavern's narrow entrance. The winter following the establishment of Ab's real companionship with Old Mok, as it chanced, was not a hard one.

Stanley Waterloo - The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man