The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone

[Frontispiece: Making stone tools]

THE CAVE BOY - OF THE AGE OF STONE

BY MARGARET A. McINTYRE

Dedicated to My Mother

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 tooth - Stone tools - Stone axe - Woven basket - Little wild pigs were eating the acorns - The sparks came like a flame and caught the dry leaves - The boys listened in wonder - Shelter of branches - Acorns - Tiger - Tiger's tooth - He struck with his hammer stone - He held the pebble in his left hand and struck it a sharp blow - Deer antlers - Forest scene - Spear - The women and children went to pick berries - The women and children ate and ate the sweet fruit - Snowy owl in tree - Women with baskets - Skin bag with pull string - Herd of reindeer - They dived into the river and swam away, pulling the raft - Flock of white swans - The sea - Clam and oyster shells - Dug-out boat - They began to cook the fish - The people took the fish in their hands - Cutting down a tree - A flounder - Seaweed - Thorn learns to swim - Clay bowls - Mammoth trapped in swamp - Wolves - Throwing a spear - A North American Indian - A stone arrow head - A stone ax - Picture of reindeer, scratched on slate; found in a cave in France - Eskimo by their winter huts; drawn by an Eskimo - A bone awl; found in a cave in England - Drawing of a mammoth, on a piece of mammoth tusk; found in a cave in France - A flint knife; found in Australia

THE CAVE BOY OF THE AGE OF STONE

CHAPTER I - STRONGARM'S FAMILY

[Illustration: All at once, the goat stood up on her hind legs]

[Illustration: Strongarm]