Soon all was quiet in
the cave. The cave folks had gone to sleep.
[Illustration: Ram horns]
CHAPTER II
THE NEEDLE, THE CLUB, AND THE BOW
Nearly every day Strongarm went out to hunt. But he did not always
bring back meat to the cave, for he could not always kill an animal.
But sometimes he brought home the meat of deer or bison, and then again
it was that of mammoth or ox.
Burr always took the meat when Strongarm brought it home, and sometimes
she cut tendons from it. A tendon is a strong white cord that fastens
a muscle to a bone. There are long tendons in the backs of big
animals. Burr cut these out sometimes and hung them in the sun to dry.
When they were dry, she broke the thin outside skin and tore the tendon
apart with her fingers. It came to pieces in many little threads.
Burr took some of the little threads and twisted them together and made
a good strong thread for sewing.
One day she sat before the door of her cave sewing together skins of
wild oxen.
[Illustration: Sewing together skins of wild oxen]
"What is the big skin for, mother?" asked Pineknot, who ran up.
"To lay on sticks above our door," said Burr. "Then, even when it
rains, we can sit outside."
"Oh, that will be fine!" said the boy.
Burr went on with her sewing. She made holes along the edge of the
skins with a sharp stone. Then she threaded her needle. She put it
through a hole in each of the skins and pulled it tight.
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