THE SAME OLD STORY 



Ahga the caveman, a cripple, tinkered in flint and 



stone ; 

 Painted the walls and the granite, gravened the 



great moose-bone; 

 Made he the stone-age language, gave men the 



tongue they spoke 

 Wisely ruled Ahga, the cripple, the man that the 



Rock-Gods broke. 



Once in a hungry moment gazed he far off to the 



lake 

 And clutching a morsel of mammoth, Ahga, the 



cripple, spake: 

 "Living things roam in the waters! Why?" and 



he gazed again: 

 " Each of them eateth the other good they must 



be for men." 



Fashioned he bone in his cunning; best of his store 

 he took; 



Plucked he from sharp rock and branches horse- 

 hairs to string his hook 



Baited it wisely with liver spoke to hungry 

 throng : 



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