tration: "_A big man caught him, and put him upon his
shoulder._"]

Bighorn asked him where he lived; but Fleetfoot was too frightened to
speak. He remembered the stories Chew-chew had told about strange
clans. He wondered what the strangers would do. How he wished he were
safe at home!

But poor Fleetfoot did not see his home again for many long years. He
was in a strange land, and soon he was traveling with the strangers
far away from his home.

A woman, whose name was Antler, took charge of Fleetfoot. She took him
by the hand until he was too tired to walk. Then she carried him until
they came to the place where they camped for the night.

#THINGS TO DO#

_Choose some one for each of the parts and see if you can act out
this story. Draw pictures to illustrate the story._

_Name the wild animals you can find in your neighborhood. Notice
what they eat. Do they help or harm the people near where they
live?_

_Model one of these animals in clay._

XIV

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

What kind of a shelter do you think the people will have for the
night?

Think of as many easy ways as you can of making a shelter out of
trees.

_How the Strangers Camped for the Night_

The camping place was an old one. It had been used many times. The
strange clan always used it on their way to and from the lowland
plains. It was under a big oak tree, and near a spring of fresh water.

When the strangers reached the camp, Greybeard took charge of
Fleetfoot. The women quickly unloaded their packs, and began to build
a tent.

It did not take long to make the tent, for it was almost ready-made.
It was an old oak, which reached out long and low-spreading branches.
The branches had been bent to the ground many times, and now they
nearly touched it. So all that the women had to do was to fasten the
ends firmly. They did it by rolling a stone over the end of a branch,
and sometimes they tied the end of a branch to a peg which they had
driven in the ground.

All the Cave-men made such tents in the summer when they were away
from the caves. When the branches were not thick enough for a shelter,
the women broke saplings and leaned them against the tree.

While Chipper worked at a spearhead, the other men were moving about.
Bighorn feared that Fleetfoot's clan might follow their tracks.

Long after Fleetfoot fell asleep, the strangers talked quietly. They
held their ears cl