that Chew-chew dropped hot stones into the water, and
offered meat to the god. But when she did it she never thought that
she was cooking meat. She thought she was helping the Cave-men by
winning the favor of the god.

Sometimes when the children were hungry, Chew-chew let them tear off
strips of partly boiled meat. Sometimes she let them drink the broth
from bone dippers and horns.

The children liked to eat the boiled meat and to drink the rich broth.
But they always thought the meat and broth were what the god had left.

#THINGS TO DO#

_Make tongs out of sticks and see if you can lift small objects
with them._

_Watch water when it boils, and tell where the steam comes from._

_Where does it go? Hold a cold plate over the steam and see what
happens. Where do the drops of water on the plate come from?_

_When water stands in the open air, what becomes of part of it?_

_Why do we hang clothes out on the clothes-line to dry?_

_What becomes of the water that was in the clothes?_

_Tell what you think happens just as clouds form. See if you can do
something that will show what happens at the time._

_What happens to the clouds just as it begins to rain?_

XI

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Why would the grass-eating animals go from place to place during
the summer? What do you think the Cave-men would do when the herds
went away?

At what season of the year are nuts fit to gather? Is there any
place near by where you have a right to go nutting?

What animals eat nuts? What animals store nuts? Do you think the
Cave-men would gather many nuts?

_The Nutting Season_

Summer passed as summers had passed before. When the bison went to the
higher lands, the Cave-men followed them. When they started toward
their winter pastures, the Cave-men came home.

[Illustration: "_All the women and children went nutting._"]

It was the nutting season when they returned. All the beech, walnut,
and butternut trees were heavily laden that year. The ground
underneath their branches was nearly covered with nuts. Slender hazel
bushes bent under their heavy loads.

Wild hogs and bears had begun to harvest the nuts before the Cave-men
returned. Each day they went to the trees and ate the nuts that had
fallen. When Eagle-eye saw what they were doing, she said, "Bring your
bags and baskets and come. If we do not look out the hogs