00:23Hello out there, Peabody here, and that is my trusty boy, Sherman.
00:27Hi!
00:27Who will assist me in our next exciting adventure back into history.
00:31Shall I set the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody?
00:33Please do, Sherman, but I suggest you use both hands,
00:36for we are going way back with the Wayback this time, to the year 50,000 B.C., to be
00:41exact.
00:4250,000 B.C.?
00:44That is correct, and the place will be Neanderthal, near Dusseldorf,
00:48where we shall meet the first caveman.
00:51Sherman and I entered the Wayback and were instantly whirled back in time
00:54to the period when the Fourth Glacial Age was rising toward its maximum.
00:59But no sooner had we arrived when I immediately realized that something was amiss.
01:03Mr. Peabody, we're moving! What's happening?
01:07I think that if you will look down, Sherman, you will see that we happen to be on a very
01:10precarious perch.
01:12Which, now that I think about it, was probably the understatement of the year.
01:16Yipe!
01:17Well, at that moment, the great beast passed beneath a large tree.
01:21So, instructing Sherman to follow my example, I grasped the nearest limb and we swung to safety.
01:26Phew! That was a close one!
01:28We then prepared to climb down from the tree, but we suddenly heard a strange sound.
01:33Ooga, ooga, mift, mift, mift, oop!
01:35What's that?
01:37Offhand, I would say that we are not alone in this tree.
01:40Mup, mup, ne-pup!
01:42Mift, mift, mift, mift!
01:43We're in luck, Sherman. There is the perfect example of Homo Neanderthalensis.
01:48You mean cavemen?
01:49Well, obviously not cavemen if they're living in this tree.
01:52We were unable to understand what they were saying, but we watched them closely from our vantage point.
01:58Iket nun mift, oket flab.
02:00Moket, sflit zop.
02:02Aga, iket nun mift.
02:04Sflit om, vrook, nit nift.
02:06Napa, napa, let's cram rum atop.
02:09Shish!
02:10What was that all about?
02:12It would seem to indicate they realized there's a better way of life than living in a tree.
02:16Come, Sherman, we'll follow them and see what develops.
02:19And what developed was most interesting indeed.
02:22For in their first attempt to find a better place to live,
02:24they passed right by a perfectly good cave and squeezed under, of all things, a wet rock.
02:30Zop, nub, ek, nub.
02:31Mip, nuk, skrik, mif.
02:33Nub, mzip, bort, zagnar.
02:36Skrit, lit, cram.
02:37Once more, by passing the cave, they next tried a gopher hole, but the gopher objected.
02:43The prehistoric gophers could be quite objectionable.
02:46In the next few hours, they tried to live in everything from bushes and brambles to stumps and hollow logs,
02:51but still didn't give the cave a second look.
02:53I used the Yang Da Indian hand signs in an attempt to explain the merits of living in a cave.
03:00Zignu krolnitz.
03:02Ognim ek, mif, nup, nip and cashew.
03:05They still don't get it, Mr. Peabody.
03:07Maybe if I go into the cave, they'll get the idea.
03:09No, no.
03:10But before I could stop him, Sherman was in the cave.
03:12But not for long.
03:16Meow!
03:19Mr. Peabody, there's a saber-toothed tiger in that cave.
03:23I noticed that, Sherman.
03:25It's no wonder those two wouldn't go inside.
03:27Gee, they'll never become cavemen at this rate.
03:29Yes, they will, Sherman.
03:31It's a simple matter of getting the saber-toothed tiger out so they can go in.
03:35Simple?
03:35Quite, Sherman.
03:36Come.
03:37Pulling up a very special bush that I'd happened to notice earlier,
03:40I tied it to one end of a long vine
03:42and instructed Sherman to tie a large round boulder to the other.
03:46Next, I tossed the bush into the cave
03:48and signaled to Sherman to roll the boulder down the hill.
03:51As it rolled, it pulled the bush after it.
03:53And, as I knew it would,
03:55the saber-toothed tiger bounded out of the cave,
03:58happily following the bush down the hill
04:00until he was lost from sight.
04:02Hooray!
04:03You did it, Mr. Peabody!
04:04But how did you know the tiger would follow that bush?
04:07Elementary, my dear Sherman.
04:09That bush happened to be Nepeta,
04:11or more commonly known as the catnip.
04:13The tiger, being all cats,
04:15found it impossible to resist.
04:17And now, being free to enter the cave,
04:19our two friends quickly did so
04:20and immediately set up light cave-keeping.
04:23At last!
04:24They're now real cavemen, huh, Mr. Peabody?
04:26Yes, and others were soon to follow their example.
04:29Soon everybody was living in caves.
04:31But this brought another problem that man had to face,
04:34the paying of taxes.
04:36Taxes? Wow, that is a big problem.
04:38Of course, Sherman.
04:39We all know that everything is big in taxes.
04:43It never fails to amaze me
04:45how he can stand there
04:46and say such corny things with such a straight face.
04:50Oogel-a-sun-fitz!
04:51Oogel-a-sun-fitz!
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