e what the
red monster was doing.
So he stood and watched it a moment.
It seemed to be chasing him.
So he ran to find a hiding-place.
He ran around through the underbrush until at last he found a safe
place.
The fire ran away from him now.
He stood and gazed at the red flames.
The wind blew.
The fire monster spread its great red wings and leaped from tree to
tree.
The branches groaned, and cracked, and fell.
Bodo was filled with terror.
He did not know what to do.
After a little it began to rain.
The fire monster became smaller and smaller.
In a few moments it was gone.
Bodo wondered where it went.

THINGS TO DO

_Think of the Tree-dwellers and the animals running away from the
forest fire._
_Draw the picture._
_Show how Bodo tried to find out more about the fire._
_Draw a picture of him as he was watching the fire._

XXIII.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Why would the Tree-dwellers want to use fire?
How would they learn to take care of it?
Why could they live in a better way after they had fire?

_How People Got Their First Homes_

The Tree-dwellers still thought that the fire was alive.
The red monster still frightened them.
Whenever they saw it they ran away.
Bodo, too, was afraid of the fire.
So he tried to be good to it and thus make it his friend.
He gave it wood to eat.
He learned to go near it without getting hurt.
He learned to carry a burning branch.
Once he carried a firebrand to the old oak.
He put it in the hollow of the tree.
Then he gave it dry sticks that he found close by, and he watched it
while it ate them.
As he stood looking at the fire, the sound of footsteps fell upon his
ear.
He looked up to see who was passing.
It was Sharptooth.
She was coming to the old oak tree.
As soon as she saw the fire, she ran.
Bodo called to her.
He asked her to come back.
Sharptooth was trembling, so that she could scarcely walk.
Bodo took her by the hand.
He led her to the fire.
He told her how he had made friends with it.
She listened to what he said, but she still seemed afraid.
Bodo wished to show that he was not afraid.
He looked puzzled a moment and then he said, "I am not going to sleep
in the trees any more."
For a moment Sharptooth was speechless.
At length she opened her lips and spoke.
"The cave-bears will get you," was what she said.
But Bodo