How Bodo Saved One-Ear’s Life
One day One-Ear was hunting gophers on the grassy upland.
His torch went out.
So he tried to get back to the wooded hills without being seen.
At first he crept through the tall grass.
But he soon came to a place where the grass did not cover him.
He hurried on as fast as he could.
He had almost reached the wooded hills when a cave-bear crossed his path.
The bear saw him.
One-Ear shouted for help, and then ran as he had never run before.
“They saw Bodo rush up to the cave-bear and wave a torch in his face”
But the cave-bear overtook him.
He soon had One-Ear in his embrace.
One-Ear remembered nothing more, but the men who heard him saw what happened.
They saw the cave-bear grasp him with his huge paws.
Then they saw Bodo rush up to the cave-bear and wave a torch in his face.
The cave-bear let go his hold.
The frightened beast ran off to his cave.
The men came up in time to help Bodo raise One-Ear from the ground.
They helped him back to the wooded hills.
His wounds were soon healed, but he always carried the marks of that cave-bear.
That was the day that he lost his ear.
We have called him One-Ear before, but the fire clan never called him One-Ear until after that day.