Part 16 (2/2)

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Do you think that the people of the fire clan would help one another in time of danger?

Can you think why people began to work together instead of hunting alone?

_How Bodo Saved One-Ear's Life_

One day One-Ear was hunting gophers on the gra.s.sy upland.

His torch went out.

So he tried to get back to the wooded hills without being seen.

At first he crept through the tall gra.s.s.

But he soon came to a place where the gra.s.s did not cover him.

He hurried on as fast as he could.

He had almost reached the wooded hills when a cave-bear crossed his path.

The bear saw him.

One-Ear shouted for help, and then ran as he had never run before.

[Ill.u.s.tration: ”_They saw Bodo rush up to the cave-bear and wave a torch in his face_”]

But the cave-bear overtook him.

He soon had One-Ear in his embrace.

One-Ear remembered nothing more, but the men who heard him saw what happened.

They saw the cave-bear grasp him with his huge paws.

Then they saw Bodo rush up to the cave-bear and wave a torch in his face.

The cave-bear let go his hold.

The frightened beast ran off to his cave.

The men came up in time to help Bodo raise One-Ear from the ground.

They helped him back to the wooded hills.

His wounds were soon healed, but he always carried the marks of that cave-bear.

That was the day that he lost his ear.

We have called him One-Ear before, but the fire clan never called him One-Ear until after that day.

THINGS TO DO

_Find a stick that will make a good torch and make one._ _Draw a picture of One-Ear and the cave-bear._

XXIX.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

How do you think the fire clan spent the evening?

If they could not say what they wished to say, how do you think they would make themselves understood?

How do you think that they learned to hunt together?

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