[Illustration: A little bone]

[Illustration: Bone needle]

"But when my mother sewed," Burr went on, "she used a little bone to
push the thread through the skins. One day she found a little bone
with a hole in it and took it home. She put her thread through the
hole, wondering how it would do, and began to sew. Soon there was a
crowd of women round her, pointing and saying, 'Oh, oh!' while the
little bone carried the thread."

"It must be fun to sew with a needle," said Pineknot.

Thorn was nearby making bone whistles and marrow scrapers, and soon
Strongarm came up dragging a little tree. He threw down his old
hunting club and said, "It is broken. I will make a new one."

[Illustration: Broken hunting club]

With his stone ax he hacked off the top and roots of the tree; then he
stripped the bark from the small end, and rubbed it with sandstone.

"It must be smooth or it will hurt my hand," he said to the boys who
stood watching him.

"In the old days," he said, rubbing away, "the cave men had nothing to
fight with but a club. Before they had even that," he went on,
grinning, "they fought with nails and teeth, or with a stick or a stone
snatched from the ground." Then laughing loud, he added, "No wonder