"For with a stone weapon they could hunt the swift
wild animals, and so get more food."
Then he stamped his foot and said, "And they could kill enemies
better!" And he clenched his fist, while his face grew hard.
The next day, men from the stone yard went out to make a fish trap.
They drove sticks across the river bed where the water was low. Then
from stick to stick they tied string made of skin. Rushes grew by the
river. They took these and wove them in and out of the strings until
the trap reached clear across the river. The water could go through
the rushes, but the fish could not; and the men speared them or caught
them with their hands.
[Illustration: Spear]
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.
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