[Illustration: Lion]

"We watched the lion for days," said Strongarm. "We found that he
slept nearly all day in the thick reeds by the river. At sundown he
went out to hunt. He hunted all night; we heard him roar at times. In
the early light he went back to his bed of reeds by the river and went
to sleep. We rolled a big stone from a high rock and killed him while
he slept. Then we went down to where he lay. We saw that he was an
old lion; he could not hunt animals enough to eat, and that is why he
had begun to kill people."

[Illustration: Lion's tooth]




CHAPTER V

THE OLD AX MAKER VISITS HIS DAUGHTER

As they were talking, a long call came from far away. They listened.
The call came again, and Strongarm put his hands to his mouth and
answered.

"It is old Flint, the ax maker," he said to his wife.

"Grandfather!" cried the boys, and they ran to meet him.

Soon they came back with an old man. His hair was rough and gray, but
his eyes were bright under his bushy eyebrows. He wore an old brown