h you can dry. Dry it and tell what
happens. What dried foods do we eat? In what kind of a place do we
keep dried foods?_

_Find the best way of boiling bitter vegetables. Tell what happens
when you boil them. Find the best way of boiling sweet vegetables._

_Draw one of these pictures:_--
_Catching salmon just below the rapids._
_Drying salmon._
_Pigeon boiling meat for the Cave-men._

XL

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Do you think that any of the young men and their wives would live
with Fleetfoot and Willow-grouse? Where do you think Flaker will
live?

Can you think why Willow-grouse would take great pains to embroider
her baby's clothing?

Why would Willow-grouse want pretty colors? Think of new ways she
might find of getting pretty colors. How could she get the color
out of plants into the stuff she wished to color?

Why was it easier to make pretty dyes after people knew how to
boil?

_The New Home_

A year or so passed and Fleetfoot and Willow-grouse were settled with
their kinsfolk in a new rock shelter. Its framework was covered with
heavy skins instead of woven branches. Heavy bone pegs and strong
thongs served to keep the skins in place.

Flaker and other young men with their wives lived in the rock shelter.
There were little children, too, and tiny babies.

[Illustration: _A baby's hood._]

Willow-grouse had a baby and she thought he was a wonderful child. She
dressed him in the softest skins which she embroidered with a prayer.
And she hung a bear's tooth about his neck because she thought it was
a charm. In winter she put him in a skin cradle and wrapped him in the
warmest furs. In summer he played in a basket cradle which
Willow-grouse wove on a forked stick.

In all that Willow-grouse did, she always asked the gods for help. The
baskets she made for boiling food, were also prayers to the gods.

[Illustration: "_In summer he played in the basket cradle which
Willow-grouse wove on a forked stick._"]

She searched for the choicest grasses and spread them on a clean spot
to dry. No one knew so well as Willow-grouse when to gather the twigs.
She knew the season when they were full-grown and gathered them before
the sap had hardened. She gathered them when the barks peeled easily
and when the rich juices flowed.

When the twigs were gathered the women soaked them and peeled off the
bark. Th