CHAPTER X

A SUMMER CAMP

Berries were ripe now, and Flint and the other cave people around him
left their caves and went to live near the berry fields. The men went
out to hunt early next morning, and the women and children went to pick
berries.

[Illustration: The women and children went to pick berries]

There were plenty of wild huckleberries and little yellow plums. The
women and children ate and ate the sweet fruit, and then filled bags
and baskets to carry home.

[Illustration: The women and children ate and ate the sweet fruit]

As they left the berry fields, the children pulled down the wild grape
vines and bit into the little grapes. But they made faces and cried,
"Oh, how sour! After awhile they will turn purple; then they will be
sweeter."

And there were trees full of little green apples. The children tasted
some of them, but threw them away. "Too sour!" they cried.

When day came to an end, the men gathered sticks and lighted the night
fires. Then they threw themselves on skins, and all talked together.
They called to each other from fire to fire, and told long stories till
far into the night. At last, in the middle of a story, they dropped
off to sleep.