PART TWO 



BY STANLEY BLAKE 



THE INVENTION OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION: 



History tells us that arms and ammunition were in- 

 vented by a naked savage in the dim ages of the past. The 

 invention, we are told, was made quite by accident. The 

 naked savage was out hunting one day, when suddenly he 

 was confronted by a huge wild beast, that, looking the sav- 

 age in the eye, licked its great chops in a manner denoting 

 extreme hunger, and started to attack the man. What 

 was the savage to do? An insurmountable cliff cut off 

 any possible avenue of escape. He must face the beast. 

 He had no time to even think what he should do. Instinc- 

 tively he knew, without weapons of any kind whatsoever, 

 that the beast could easily overpower and make a meal off 

 of him. This was in the dim ages before even the most 

 primitive weapons were in use; nothing had as yet been 

 thought of for defense except human strength unaided by 

 anything else. 



Then, as now, the law of self-preservation asserted it- 

 self, and in the twinkling of an eye he reached down and 

 grasped a jagged piece of stone and with all his might hurl- 

 ed it straight at the beast's head. His aim was true. The 

 great force with which the savage had hurled the stone 

 sent it crashing against the animal's skull with a noisy im- 

 pact that sent the beast to his knees in a senseless stupor, 

 giving the naked savage a chance to escape, which he lost 

 no time in taking advantage of. As he sped on his way to 



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