a waiting father. Finally the famous Surgeon came
out. "It was a textbook case," he explained, "ripped tubes that had
healed together. The unfertilized eggs could not get down into the
carrying chamber.
10 We cut out the damaged areas and sewed the tubes back together There
was also a rip in the carrying chamber, that if we had not repaired
would have caused her trouble when she bore. But I think when she burns
again there will be no pain, and she should be able to conceive."
11 That following season Gray Boar was working on a project for some
construction people. Just a few years before, mortar had been developed, and they were beginning to
build buildings of baked brick by sticking them together with the
mortar, but something was going wrong.
12 Some of the buildings came apart, others stood up fine, though they
were all made the exact same way! Gray Boar began to perform
experiments. He tried everything he could think of, but he couldn't
seem to find the problem. Some mortar held up well, but some made the
exact same way, crumbled!
13 "It just doesn't make sense!" he told Swift Dog. "There's got to be
a reason, and its something very simple, but we just don't see it!"
14 As they were working one day, Mountain Glory walked in the
laboratory all smiles, walked up to Gray Boar, and tapped him on the shoulder. When he turned around and
looked at her, she kissed him and announced, "The breech is loaded."
15 Gray Boar looked at her for a moment. "The breech is loaded?" he
repeated. Then, he remembered the old military slang. When a fighting
person's mate was pregnant, her breech was loaded! He grabbed her and
hugged her. "You're sure?" he stammered, "You're positive?"