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CHAPTER 3c continued Till he happened to encounter A much stronger river hunter Hideous Jurassic lizard Pulled him down with no returning Other crocodiles converging Made straight lines like silver arrows Churned and twisted in the water Then the other three turned homeward Standing on the river's north bank Matto, Lisa held each other Watched their parents struggle closer In their flimsy leaking vessel Till at last they gained the shoreline And all four embraced each other Wept for joy at their reunion Then the children saw the monkey As their parents told the story Of their orphaned ape companion Lisa tenderly bent down and Lifted up the baboon infant "Can I have it as a pet, Mum?" "I don't think that is a problem" So the monkey was adopted Lisa chose to call her Rosy CHAPTER 4 The Eagle With that crisis now behind them They continued trekking northward Feeling great relief and gladness Rosy scampered after Lisa Kwona gave to Han the paired horns She had severed from the bull's head Han was curious at their shape, and Cut and trimmed them with his hatchet He remembered watching children Playing with a wood-carved wing shape How when thrown it flew while spinning Sometimes changing its direction So he carved the pair of horns Into a wing-like aerofoil It was angled in its flat plane Forming straight symmetric sections Then they tested this new wing-form Practiced how to throw it spinning So it first flew straight and level Then swerved up and back towards them In their travelling that followed This new boomerang proved useful Guinea fowl and grassland rodents Could be killed at quite a distance Han was skilled at fire-starting Matto tried to learn the method Which took patient dedication That the boy found hard to master They would light a fire at evening Roast some bird or beast above it Sometimes vegetables and shellfish Then it smouldered through the night-time On they walked through grassy scrubland Sensed an inclination upwards In the distance seeing jungle Covering a hilly landscape One day Lisa and her brother Played at throw and fetch with Rosy They would toss a stick or seashell And the monkey would retrieve it Then an eagle spotted Rosy Started flying low toward them Swooping fast across the grassland Seizing Rosy in its talons! Han was watching as this happened As the children cried in horror Quick the boomerang was readied Han took careful aim and cast it
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