It was beautiful, and Thorn shouted as he saw the
foam-capped waves roll in and break on the white sand.
Pointing to a place along the shore, the children said, "There is our
home."
[Illustration: The sea]
CHAPTER XII
AT THE HOME OF THE SHELL MOUND PEOPLE
Dogs barked and ran up and down the shore among the people. The
children ran along to their home. They were not afraid of the dogs,
but petted them. And the dogs jumped about the children and played
with them and were glad to see them.
The people of the shell mounds did not look just like the cave people.
They were shorter and had rounder heads. But their eyebrows hung over
their eyes, as the cave people's did. And they dressed in skins.
Their houses were made of branches of trees and stones and dirt. They
were set high up on shore where the waves could not reach them.
Thorn walked about with the children and saw a great pile of shells.
It lay far along the shore, and was higher than a man, and very wide.
[Illustration: Clam and oyster shells]
"What are you going to do with all these shells?" he asked Periwinkle.
"Do with them?" laughed Periwinkle. "Why, nothing. We threw them
away. They show what good things we have had to eat, do they not,
Foam?"
Foam was a girl with white teeth.
"Yes," said Foam, laughing. "They are shells of oysters and clams and
periwinkles that we have eaten.
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