Explore "Project Mastodon" by Clifford D. Simak on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
It had taken ten full days of backbreaking work to build the pyramid. They'd hauled the rocks from the creek bed half a mile away and had piled them, stone by rolling stone, to the height of a full twelve feet. It took a lot of rocks and a lot of patience, for as the pyramid went up, the base naturally kept broadening out.
But now all was finally ready.