Chapter Forty-Six: Looking for the Poison Arrow Frog

The saber-toothed tiger had never encountered such danger, and was covered by a hunting net, and panicked, and just jumped up and down on the ground indiscriminately. Rolling around, trying to escape in vain, but the father and son firmly pulled the four corners of the hunting net, so that the saber-toothed tiger had to squat on the ground, even no matter how great the strength could not be used, not to mention that the ten hunting dogs waited for it to exert its power again, rushed forward together, some bit their legs, some bit their tails, some bit their buttocks, some bit their ears, some bit their stomachs, and their mouths were merciless, and they tore off a large mouthful of meat as soon as they bit it.

After half a bag of cigarettes, the saber-toothed tiger that was still alive just now has become a pair of rotten meat, and the dogs are bullying it.

The father picked up the axe and smashed it on the back of the saber-toothed tiger's head with a thick axe back, only to hear a muffled sound, and the saber-toothed tiger completely died. Seeing this, the dogs stopped biting and waited for the owner's command.

After getting four wolves unexpectedly last night, their food these days is not worried, and they don't need to eat most of the reindeer left, so the dogs eat hard, but this saber-toothed tiger is full of treasures, tiger skin can be used as a mattress mattress, living in the mountains can prevent rheumatism, tiger bone soup and tiger meat can make the children's body bones grow stronger, especially for the elderly Tiger bones are good, they want to get the whole back.

It goes without saying that I can only come back tomorrow to catch sheep today, and today I will get this saber-toothed tiger to the hut.

The saber-toothed tiger weighed three or four hundred pounds, and if it was carried directly on the shoulder, the four people would not be able to exert themselves, so they cut wood to make a stretcher, and tied the tiger to the stretcher.

At this time, the weather is getting cooler, but it is not very cold, and the tiger meat can be left for seven or eight days.

When they got back to the hut, they found a few large logs, made them into shelves, and put the tiger on the shelves, which looked like they were sleeping on their stomachs from a distance.

The dead tiger, like a scarecrow, was surprisingly calm that night, without any animal to disturb him, and even the wolf, which was snorting and wounded by a stake, did not dare to pant loudly, but just lay there quietly.

After the fright of the saber-toothed tiger yesterday, it is estimated that there will be no gain in that place today, so they simply walked downstream from the valley plain without walking on the mountainside, and walked out of the distance for half a day in one breath before slowing down and taking a closer look. After turning a hillside, the group of reindeer that I met yesterday were grazing leisurely, and it seemed that yesterday's fright had no effect, and life had to go on.

In the herd of deer, there are grayish and gray wild sheep, some with long, curved horns, others without horns, but with thick and short tails.

The horns are rams, and the horns are the weapons they use in the fight for mates, and the big tails are the ewes, and the fat tails are the storehouses of the milk of their lambs when the water and weeds are short.

The herd of deer and sheep does not interfere with each other, they all concentrate on grazing, the tranquility of life is too precious to the animals living in the wild, and they must seize all the time to eat and survive, for them, survival is the most important thing. Occasionally, a few lambs and deer cubs run around in the herd, chasing and playing, completely unaware of the hardships of life.

The father told the children to hide in the grass, and listened to the "gurgling" sound from the ground on the dirt, and after changing places, he finally heard the familiar sound, which was the sound of poison dart frogs digging hibernation holes underground.

At the place where the sound was made, the father carefully cut through the dirt little by little with his hoe and dug out a green and yellow palm-sized frog, the green was striking and verdant, and the yellow was bright and vivid.

Generally speaking, animals in the wild try to make themselves as protective as possible to avoid being discovered by predators or by prey, and this frog seems to be deliberately visible to other animals.

Where something is strange, there must be a miracle. My father said, "It's called a poison dart frog, and it's highly poisonous on its thighs." ”

After saying that, he grabbed the frog's belly, pulled out a few arrows from the quiver on his back, and used the arrow to pick the frog's legs, which slowly oozed yellow-green, yellow-green liquid.

The father slowly rotated the arrows, all of which were stained with yellow-green liquid, and then the arrows became yellow-green, orange-orange, and glowing a terrible bright yellow.

My father told everyone not to get this water on the skin, otherwise it would be itchy and unbearable, and it would be uncomfortable for several days, and after getting it on the arrow, the prey that was shot would instantly become numb, and it would take two or three days to return to normal.

As he spoke, my father had dipped several arrows in venom and gently dried them with his mouth.

Then let the dogs lie on their stomachs, and everyone slowly stood up and slowly walked towards the deer and sheep.

A few deer and sheep looked up at them, and then lowered their heads again and went to nibble on the grass on the ground, not seeing them as a threat at all, perhaps not seeing anyone at all, thinking that they were the same herbivores, and that there was no danger.

Seeing this, the father told everyone to walk more easily, not to let the animals see their nervous expressions, and stopped the action of holding the bow and arrows, inserted the bow into the bow bag, and distributed a few arrows to the children, and they decided to put their hands directly into the sheep's buttocks and give the sheep a numbing medicine.

When he came to the side of a ram, the father even touched the back of the sheep with his hand, and the sheep who was touched just snorted with his nose in protest and left it alone.

Seeing that everyone was standing in front of the sheep and the deer, the father looked at each other, and everyone started together, and eight arrows pierced two stags, two rams, two does, and two ewes, which happened to be four pairs.

In just a moment, the few animals that were still grazing with their heads down just now were unable to help themselves, and collapsed and fell down, and then the surrounding animals felt that danger was coming, and they raised their hooves and ran away.

Now there are so many animals, it is no longer possible to carry them back on the shoulder, and the river next to it is small, the buoyancy is limited, not to mention that there are piles of rocks in some places, even if it causes the boat to be difficult to pass, it seems that there is only another way.

My father said, "Then we'll go on a sled."

They cut down some large logs, and dismantled a few kudzu vines from the hunting nets, and put them around the necks of the dogs, and the people and the dogs worked together to pull the sleeping living treasures to the hut, and everyone was exhausted, and the sleigh dragged a long mark on the grass.

All night, the father was discussing with the excited children how to get these things back.

These deer and sheep yesterday alone have exhausted everyone, plus this tiger, it is impossible for everyone to use the old way to get it back, not to mention that it is not easy to walk with potholes along the way.

After discussing it all night, we finally decided to make a wheeled cart and use it to pull things back.

However, in order to make this wheeled car, you need to stay here for another day, because there are no big trees nearby, and you have to go a little farther to the top of the high mountain to make the wheel.