Excerpt: ...glad. He began to dance and clap his hands in time with the old man's song. Then he caught the words and began to sing with his grandfather: "I give you the eye of the eagle, To find the rabbit's heart! I give you the eye of the eagle, To find the rabbit's heart!" Before long the little spear head was done. It was thin and sharp and beautiful. Thorn tied it to the little straight stick, and he had an arrow for his bow! Flint worked on. "We make all of our axes and spear heads and knives and scrapers of flint," ...
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Excerpt: ...glad. He began to dance and clap his hands in time with the old man's song. Then he caught the words and began to sing with his grandfather: "I give you the eye of the eagle, To find the rabbit's heart! I give you the eye of the eagle, To find the rabbit's heart!" Before long the little spear head was done. It was thin and sharp and beautiful. Thorn tied it to the little straight stick, and he had an arrow for his bow! Flint worked on. "We make all of our axes and spear heads and knives and scrapers of flint," he said after a while. "It chips more easily than any other stone." After some time Flint and the boy left the stone yard. Illustration: Deer antlers CHAPTER IX AT THE GRAVEL PIT As they walked along, the old man pointed to a place in the hillside and said, "That is the gravel bed. From it we dig all the stone for our axes and spear heads." Thorn looked and saw a big hollow in a gravel hill. The hill was made of sand and clay and pebbles and bowlders. The rain had washed some of the sand and clay away, and the stones had fallen down and now lay in piles on the ground. "Men come from far away for our stone," the old man went on. "It is good stone for axes. They bring us shells and amber and meat and skins for our stone. Some of them take the stone to their homes and make their own axes; others buy our axes." At the gravel bed, men were at work. One man had a big digging stick. He put it under a rock and pushed it out of the ground. Another man had the shoulder bone of a bear. He pushed it under some pebbles and lifted them and threw them upon an ox skin on the ground. Then he gathered up the corners of the skin, took it on his back, and carried it down to the stone yard. As Thorn watched the men getting out stone for their axes and spear heads, he said to his grandfather, "Who made the axes for the cave men before you made them?" "Oh, ever since the old days," said Flint, "there has been an ax maker. Some men can chip stone well and easily....
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