e-men carved their weapons?_

_Act out the part of this story you like best._

_Draw one of these pictures:_--
_Flaker watching for Fleetfoot's return._
_The children bringing antlers to Flaker._
_The women at work making tools._
_Fleetfoot showing the dagger to Bighorn._
_Greybeard and Chipper asking Flaker to make daggers._

_Make as many simple tools as you can out of bone or horn. Find
ways of using them._

XXVIII

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

What do you think Flaker used in cutting the antler? What tools
will he need to use in making weapons of bone or horn?

What do you think the first saws were? How do you think people came
to use saws? How large do you think they were?

What are files used for? Can you think what the first files were
like? What do you think they were used for?

_How Flaker Invented the Saw_

[Illustration: _A small antler._]

How glad Flaker was when Greybeard and Chipper asked him to make them
some daggers! He looked at all the antlers the children had brought.
He thought of the reindeer he had seen with antlers such as these. He
remembered the handsome reindeer with their deadly weapons, and at
length he chose the large antlers which had belonged to a handsome
stag.

Flaker looked at the long beams and decided to use them for daggers.
He took his knife to cut off the prongs, but he could scarcely cut
them with a knife.

Flaker knew that the women cut the prongs with a chopper, but a
chopper was a woman's tool. And Flaker wanted to be like the men. And
so he kept working with his knife, but he wished he had taken a beam
which the women had left.

[Illustration: _A knife with two blades, a saw, and a file, all in
one._]

When he was tired using his knife, he played with some flint flakes.
He ran his fingers over the sharp edges. Then he carelessly pressed
off tiny flakes.

But Flaker soon tired of this and he picked up the antler again. He
pushed a flint flake back and forth upon one of the prongs of the
antler.

Flaker was simply playing at first; but when he saw that the flint was
cutting, his play became real work. And he kept on pushing and pulling
the flake until the prong fell to the ground. Then he sawed off other
prongs, but he did not know he was sawing.

Flaker had never seen a saw and he did not know what it was. He did
not know that when he pressed off the tiny flakes he