Then he sat down by the fire to make his picture of the bear. After a
while he held up the piece of limestone with the picture scratched on
it.
[Illustration: Then he sat down by the fire to make his picture of the
bear]
"O mother," said Pineknot, laughing hard, "see Thorn's picture of the
bear. It shows his big body and his long head and his little ears."
"That is the very bear that made us run," said Burr, laughing.
All this time Strongarm had been making a picture of wild horses. He
now held up the picture, scratched on a piece of deer antler.
"See, this horse has his ears up," he said. "He heard me coming. Here
I am with my spear."
Burr and the boys crowded round and said, "Oh!"
While Strongarm and the boys were making pictures, the baby had been
tumbling about on the floor. She crept around or pulled herself to her
feet by holding to the rough places in the wall. After a while she
grew sleepy; then her mother took her in her arms and sang this song:
"Little child!
Little sweet one!
Little girl!
Though a baby,
Soon a-hunting after berries
Will be going.
Little girl!
Little sweet one!
Little child!"
The baby went to sleep, and Burr laid her on a bear skin on the floor.
Soon afterwards Pineknot fell asleep on another skin, and in a little
while Thorn lay beside him. Then Burr put ashes over the coals, while
Strongarm threw burning logs before the door.
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