Tales of Adam by Daniel Quinn

Author:Daniel Quinn [Quinn, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58642-191-5
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2011-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

FINDING AN ACCOMMODATION WITH THE SEA

Once, when Adam and his family were camped by the river that flows into the sea, Adam let his son lead in tracking a boar. When the track disappeared into thick underbrush, Abel circled the thicket only to find that it fronted the river, which the boar had evidently crossed. Abel led his father across the river, where he hoped to pick up the boar’s trail again. But the shores of the river were rocky, and Abel could find no trace of the boar’s passing.

Adam sat down with his back against a tree while Abel dashed up and down the water’s edge and poked here and there along the inland trails. An endless line of ants were marching past Adam’s tree, and, as he waited for his son to pick up the boar’s trail, he amused himself by watching them making their way in the dust.

Abel, angry and frustrated by his failure to find the lost trail, soon came over to where his father was sitting and glared down at him impatiently. Adam, paying his son no attention, laid a leaf in the way of the ants and, when a few had clambered up onto it, set it to one side of their path. The ants swarmed off the leaf in confusion and began circling in all directions in a frantic effort to find their mysteriously missing companions.

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