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Title: The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone

Author: Margaret A. McIntyre

Release Date: June 13, 2006 [EBook #18576]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Frontispiece: Making stone tools]

THE CAVE BOY

OF THE AGE OF STONE

BY

MARGARET A. McINTYRE

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Dedicated to My Mother

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. STRONGARM'S FAMILY
II. THE NEEDLE, THE CLUB, AND THE BOW
III. THE TAMING OF THE DOG
IV. HOW STRONGARM HUNTED A BEAR AND A LION
V. THE OLD AX MAKER VISITS HIS DAUGHTER
VI. THE COMING OF FIRE
VII. THE CAVE TIGER
VIII. THE MAKING OF STONE WEAPONS
IX. AT THE GRAVEL PIT
X. A SUMMER CAMP
XI. THORN MEETS THE CHILDREN OF THE SHELL MOUNDS
XII. AT THE HOME OF THE SHELL MOUND PEOPLE
XIII. THORN LEARNS TO SWIM
XIV. THE FEAST OF MAMMOTH'S MEAT
XV. THE RED MEN OF OUR OWN COUNTRY IN THE STONE AGE
XVI. HOW STONE WEAPONS OF THE CAVE MEN WERE FIRST FOUND
XVII. HOW THE EARTH LOOKED WHEN THE SHELL MEN AND THE CAVE MEN LIVED
XVIIII. HOW EARLY MEN BELIEVED THAT ALL THINGS THAT MOVE ARE ALIVE
XIX. THE PEOPLE OF OUR TIME WHO WERE MOST LIKE THE CAVE MEN

SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Making stone tools . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

All at once, the goat stood up on her hind legs

Strongarm

A big black bear came along

Then he sat down by the fire to make his picture of the bear

Ram horns

Sewing together skins of wild oxen

A little bone

Bone needle

Broken hunting club

The bees flew off humming angrily

The edge of the pond

And, for fun, set it against the string

Broken hunting club (2nd version)

Cattle horns

So they lay down on the ground and began to call

A nest full of young eagles

She scraped off all the meat and fat

Tiger's tooth and bear's claw

Lion

Lion's