[Illustration: The sea]
CHAPTER XII
AT THE HOME OF THE SHELL MOUND PEOPLE
Dogs barked and ran up and down the shore among the people. The children ran along to their home. They were not afraid of the dogs, but petted them. And the dogs jumped about the children and played with them and were glad to see them.
The people of the shell mounds did not look just like the cave people. They were shorter and had rounder heads. But their eyebrows hung over their eyes, as the cave people's did. And they dressed in skins.
Their houses were made of branches of trees and stones and dirt. They were set high up on shore where the waves could not reach them.
Thorn walked about with the children and saw a great pile of shells. It lay far along the shore, and was higher than a man, and very wide.
