wn to the stone yard.

As Thorn watched the men getting out stone for their axes and spear
heads, he said to his grandfather, "Who made the axes for the cave men
before you made them?"

"Oh, ever since the old days," said Flint, "there has been an ax maker.
Some men can chip stone well and easily. Others can never learn to do
it in their whole lives. So the men who can chip stone do it; and they
are the ax makers. The other men use the axes, and they are the
hunters.

"My grandfather told me," said Flint, as he walked slowly down the
hill, "that in the old days the cave men did not have stone axes and
spears. They hunted with sticks; they threw a stick like your mother's
digging stick; and they struck with a stick like your father's hunting
club. And they used the sharp stones they chipped only for knives and
scrapers. But one day, a man thought about tying a sharp stone to a
stick! There, you see, was the first spear!"

[Illustration: Forest scene]

"That was a great day for the cave men!" Flint went on, while his grim
face lighted up. "For with a stone weapon they could hunt the swift
wild animals, and so get more food."

Then he stamped his foot and said, "And they could kill enemies
better!" And he clenched his fist, while his face grew hard.

The next day, men from the stone yard went out to make a fish trap.
They drove sticks across the river bed where the water was low. Then
from stick to stick they tied string made of skin. Rushes grew by the
river. They took these and wove them in and out of the strings until
the trap reached clear across the river. The water could go through
the rushes, but the fish could not; and the men speared them or caught
them with their hands.

[Illustration: Spear]

CHAPTER X

A SUMMER CAMP

Berries were ripe now, and Flint and the other cave people around him
left their caves and went to live near the berry fields. The men went
out to hunt early next morning, and the women and children went to pick
berries.

[Illustration: The women and children went to pick berries]

There were plenty of wild huckleberries and little yellow plums. The
women and children ate and ate the sweet fruit, and then filled bags
and baskets to carry home.

[Illustration: The women and children ate and ate the sweet fruit]

As they left the berry fields, the children pulled down the wild grape
vines and bit into the little grapes. But they made faces and cried,
"Oh, ho