when melted together in a certain way, make bronze. But the Iron
Star's travels were not ended.




SPARK III.

HOW THE STAR WAS CARRIED ON THE WARPATH, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.


Just why it seemed necessary for Umpl and his people to go to war with
anybody may not be clear. They were living very happily in their
village on the lake. Their cattle were fat; their fields of that
curious grass through which Umpl had waded before he knew what it was
good for were sure to harvest grain enough to make bread, and Sptz had
found that grain-bread was as much better than acorn-bread as sponge
cake is better than gingerbread; although both gingerbread and acorn-
bread are good enough for any one, when one cannot get anything
better.

Sptz had found many things in that village which were just what she
wanted. For one thing, out of the long, shaggy hair of the longer-
horned cattle had been found a way of spinning thread and weaving
cloth in pretty patterns. Sptz could dress a deerskin beautifully, and
make out of it a cloak fit for a warrior to wear, but she had never
learned to weave. Still, when the other girls showed their best
dresses to each other and chattered, and looked over their shoulder at
Sptz in her deerskin mantle, some young man with a bracelet on his arm
would be quite likely to pass by them and go straight to Sptz with