as the wild dogs do, and slept on the ground; and the rain wet them,
and the cold winds made them shiver.

"But after fire came, all this was changed. For the fire would go out
unless there was some one to keep it. So a man told his wife that she
might stay and keep the fire, and said that he would hunt for both.

"The woman then took a place that she liked, near a stream, and built a
shelter of branches and made her fire there and kept it. And the man
brought meat to her, and she cooked it. And before very long all the
people were living in that way. And so ever since that time, the man
has been the hunter, and the woman has kept the fire and brought water
from the stream and gathered seeds of the ripe grasses."

[Illustration: Shelter of branches]

"And always since then, too, the family place has been about the fire.
We sit beside it and warm ourselves and work and talk and rest; and
that is home."

"True, true," grunted old Flint; and Strongarm nodded his head.

[Illustration: Acorns]




CHAPTER VII

THE CAVE TIGER