of each others way,and mope and sulk in the dark forests, never hearingeach others voice, till they have forgotten almost whatspeech is like. I am afraid they will all be apes verysoon, and all by doing only what they liked. And in the next five hundred years they were all 236 THE WATER-BABIES… … M. Du Chaillu came up to him, and shot him, as hestood roaring and thumping his breast. And heremembered that his ancestors had once been men,and tried to say, Am I nut a man and a brother ? vi A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 237 but had forgotten how to use his tongue ; and then hehad tried to call…
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