In the Morning of Time

IN THE MORNING OF TIME
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
Author of “The Kindred of the Wild,” etc.
NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1922, by Frederick A. Stokes Company
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Printed in the United States of America
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In The Morning of Time

It lay apparently afloat on the sluggish, faintly discolored tide––a placid, horse-faced, shovel-nosed head, with bumpy holes for ears and immense round eyes of a somewhat anxious mildness.
The anxiety in the great eyes was not without reason, for their owner had just arrived in the tepid and teeming waters of this estuary, and the creatures which he had already seen about him were both unknown and menacing. But the inshore shallows were full of water-weeds of a rankness and succulence far beyond anything he had enjoyed in his old habitat, and he was determined to secure himself a place here.