and full of smoke, and oldwomensex bits of oldwomensex burning things fell among them. Whole trees
were burning now. Different oldwomensex kinds of trees burned in different ways.
Longleaf trees caught fire quickly, and then the leaves all burned and the
fire went oldwomensex out, and then the branches would catch fire in places. Oldwomensex but the
blue roundleaf trees would not catch at oldwomensex first, but then they would catch
all over and great flames would oldwomensex shoot high.
Finally, the fire close to them grew less, though the big trees were all
burning. It had burned far away in the direction the wind blew. Oldwomensex big Ones'
Friend said that the ground would be hot oldwomensex where the fire had been, and burn
their feet, so they waded along where the water was shallow to where the
small moving-water came into the lake. The fire had started to burn along
this, but not across oldwomensex it, so they oldwomensex crossed over and started up on the other
oldwomensex side. Big Ones' oldwomensex Friend untied the rope from around his waist, and they
wrapped it around the staff of a spear; oldwomensex Big She and Lame One carried it.
Animals were in the woods, all frightened oldwomensex by the fire. They came close
enough to a takku, a zarabuck, to kill it with their spears. But why should
they? They would only have to carry the meat with them, and it oldwomensex might be
that they would have to run fast to oldwomensex get away from the fire. The little
stream turned and came from the direction the fire was burning. Then they
came to a place where there was fire on their side too. Everybody was
frightened because Big Ones' Friend had said that fire would not cross a
moving-water, but he could see how this had happened: the wind had carried
little oldwomensex burning-things over it, and started new
fires.
"We go away from here," oldwomensex Big
Ones' Friend said. "Soon be fire all around.
Go away through woods; keep wind in face."
Everybody began to run. The brush was thick. After a while, oldwomensex Wise One saw
Lame One running alone with his spear and