HINGS TO THINK ABOUT

What tools do you know how to use?
What do you use them for?
How do you think that people did their work before they had tools?
What tools do you think the Tree-dwellers needed?
How do you think they learned to make them?

_How Bodo Learned to Make Tools and Weapons_

Bodo did not have any tools or weapons.
Nobody knew how to make them.
But he had learned to use his hands.
He used them to catch small animals.
He knew how to creep up softly.
He knew how to wait patiently.
He knew just when to grasp the animal.
Bodo used his hands to gather berries and nuts.
He used them to pull up roots.
He used them to rake the acorns together.

[Illustration: "_Sometimes Bodo threw stones_"]

He used them to scoop small things up from the ground.
Bodo knew how to strike with his fists.
He knew how to kick with his feet.
Sometimes he threw stones.
Sometimes he threw sticks.
Sometimes he struck with a stick in his hand.
He could strike harder blows with a stick than he could when he struck
with his fist.
Sometimes it hurt him when he struck with his fist.
It did not hurt him when he struck with a club.
Bodo had many enemies.
He had to take care of himself.
He felt safer when he had a club in his hand.

[Illustration: _The stick Bodo used_]

THINGS TO DO

_Show what Bodo used for a rake._
_Show what he used for a scoop._
_Show how he caught wild animals._
_Draw a picture of Bodo catching a squirrel._

XIX.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Have you ever used a hammer?
What are our hammers made of?
How do you think people learned to make hammers?
Why did Bodo need a hammer?
What do you do with your knife?
How many kinds of knives have you seen?
How do you think people cut their food before they had knives?
What do you think they used for their first knives?

_Bodo's Hammer and Knife_

Bodo had never had a warm dinner.
He had no fire to cook his food.
Much of his food was hard and tough.
He had not learned to soften it with fire.
He had not learned to crush or grind it with stones.
His teeth did all of this work.
The teeth of all the Tree-dwellers were large and strong.
They were fitted to cut and grind tough food.
They were fitted to crack the shells of nuts.
Bodo often cracked nuts with his teeth.
But sometimes he found nuts that he could not crack.
He had never seen or hear