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Their native arts and crafts began to flourish In the glooan to be smelted, with prih the night--stillness sounded the ring and clangor of anvils e for an to clack--for at last so, pale children, who had traveled stowed in crates like the water-fowl

By night the pool and river gleaated even the rapids, for these were hardy water-people, whose whole life had been see fowl nested in the cliff below the settle and diving in the river, even rearing their broods of squawking, naked little s and mud

Some of the hardier of the first-arrived colonists had already--far sooner than Allan had hoped--begun to tolerate a little daylight

Following his original idea, he prepared some sets of brown mica eye-shields, and by the aid of these a number of the Merucaans were able to endure an hour or two of early dawn and late evening in the open air

The children, he found, were far less sensitive to light than the adults--a natural sequence of the atavistic principle well known to all biologists

He hoped that in a year or so ht even bear the noon-day sun Once he could get theress would leap forward htily in many lines of activity that he had planned

An occasional short raid with the Pauillac had stocked the colony with firears, cutlery, alassware, from the dismantled cities of Nashville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and other places unidentified

Allan foresaw almost infinite possibilities in these raids Civilization he felt, would surge onith a rapidity fostered by this detritus of the distant past

He also unearthed and brought back to Settleraphs and records, sealed in their oiled canvas and hidden in the rock-cleft near the patriarch's grave

Thereafter of an evening the voices of other days sang in the cave Around the entrance, now protected by stout and aroup, understanding the universal appeal of harmony, softened and humanized by the music of the world that was And thus, too, was the education of the Folk ress, toward the goal!

Autumn came down the world, and the sun paled a little as it sank to southward in the heavens Warmth and luxuriant fertility, fecundity without parallel, still pervaded the earth, but a certain change had even so becoht be born