NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1946

Copyright, 1921, 1922
By IRVING CRUMP

Printed in U. S. A.


CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
IThe Call of Cooked Meat[1]
IIThe Fire Demon[10]
IIIThe Crack in the Earth[19]
IVThe First Camp Fire[31]
VIn Which the Wolf Becomes Dog[41]
VIAt Bay With the Wolf Pack[55]
VIIA Captive of the Tree People[61]
VIIIScar Face the Terrible[74]
IXSacrificed to Sabre Tooth[86]
XIn the Dark of the Night[97]
XIFire[106]
XIIStolen Flames[115]
XIIIThe Wrath of the Fire Monster[126]
XIVThe Python’s Coils[136]
XVSmothering Darkness[146]
XVIWab is Cared For[156]
XVIIThe Fire Lighter[161]
XVIIIGog’s Treachery[177]
XIXGog Passes On[190]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Beside him, shivering and whimpering, were two wolf cubs[Frontispiece]
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Og squatted down close at hand and watched them[48]
The pack stopped. Og and his fire arrested them[56]
Og beheld in the lower branches three big forms[64]
The great creature carried him as easily as Og would have carried a young goat[76]
It was trying to trace the direction of an odor[94]
The boulder, with a crunching noise, came out of its insecure resting place[100]
Then he proceeded with his skinning, while the wolf cubs looked silently on[102]
Great bats, almost as big as Og himself[138]
The huge serpent raised its head and shining neck aloft and glared about the cavern[142]