ttle ones were when they saw the women and children!
They were glad to eat the berries.
While they were smacking their lips, Sharptooth showed them the
basket.
That night as the fathers and mothers came home, the children ran out
to meet them.
Each time they told what Sharptooth had made.
Each time they showed the rush basket.
It was not many days before each of the older children had made one
like it.

[Illustration: "_When the basket was deep enough she fastened the
ends_"]

THINGS TO DO

_Look at the pictures in this lesson and see how Sharptooth's basket
was made._
_Gather tough grasses or rushes and make a basket of your own._
_Show how the children ran to meet the fathers and mothers as they
came home at night. Draw the picture._

XXVII.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Do you think that the fire clan used fire in as many ways as we do?
What do we use it for?
How many uses do you think that the fire clan made of it?
Can you think how people learned to cook food?

[Illustration: "_Sabre-tooth was large and fierce_"]

_How Bodo Used Fire_

All the Tree-dwellers now knew that the fire was their friend.
They found it useful in many ways.
It guarded the spot where they slept at night, and it helped them all
through the day.
They no longer swung from branch to branch.
When they carried a firebrand, it was safe to walk on the ground.
Their hands were at last free.
When Bodo started out with his firebrand the wild animals ran to their
dens.
Sometimes Bodo pursued them.
He chased some of the animals home to their dens, but he never went to
the caves.
Sabre-tooth and the cave-bear were too large and fierce.
The hyenas were small, but they lived in packs.
So Bodo learned to let them alone.

[Illustration: "_Bodo would build a fire at the mouth of the hole_"]

But he was not afraid of the gophers and badgers.
He chased them to their holes and tried to smoke them out.
He would build a fire at the mouth of a hole.
Then he would stand with a club in his hand and watch.
He would watch until the animal came out.
Sometimes he had to wait a long time.

[Illustration: _Bodo's club_]

But in the end he nearly always got meat to eat.
One day he was hunting squirrels.
He chased a squirrel to its hole in a tree.
Then he tried to smoke it out.
He waited a long time in vain, so at last he set fire to the t