Kala sometimes talked with the older females about her young hopeful, but none of them could understand how a child could be so slow and backward in learning to care for itself. Why, it could not even find food alone, and more than twelve moons had passed since Kala had come upon it.

In the Wu Ch’eng section of the ancient Book of Documents, it is stated that the blood that flowed at the decisive battle of Mu-yeh, when King Wu of Chou destroyed the army of the Shang King ca. 1045 B.C. (Legge, Shoo King, p. 315) was deep enough to float pestles.

Coordinate term: forlorn hope

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