The red men never got beyond the Stone Age and into the
Iron Age as white men did."
"Where did you get all these beautiful stone things?" the boy asked
after a while, looking at them with longing eyes.
"I have been years in getting them together," the doctor said. "Many
of them I found myself, on my walks through the country. Others I
bought from the people who found them."
"You must love them very much," said the boy.
"I do," said his friend, "and some day I shall give them all to a
museum where they will be kept for people to see."
CHAPTER XVI
HOW STONE WEAPONS OF THE CAVE MEN WERE FIRST FOUND
If you should cross the broad ocean that lies toward the rising sun,
you would come to a beautiful country called France. Here grow the
olive, the orange, and the grape; and the mulberry, on which the silk
worm feeds. But it is not with these that we have to do to-day, but
with some strange old things that once lay buried far below the soil in
which they grow.
About seventy years ago, a man in that country who sold sand and gravel
found that his own gravel pits were worked out. He went to the banks
of a river--the river Somme--near by and found a good gravel bed, which
he began to cut down and cart off to sell. He dug away at the hill for
months and got far below the top of the ground. Then one day his spade
struck something hard; he dug it out and saw that it was a very large
bone.
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