“The Bear people have taken it!” answered one of the men.
“See! They have taken our grain, too!” said another.
This made Lodrix wish more than ever that he might fight these people.
He knew his father would be angry, too, when they told him what had been done.
They wondered where they would get food for the winter.
They knew they must work very hard to get the soil ready for more grain, and that they must fish and hunt a great deal or they would have no dried meat to store away.
These thoughts made them very sad, and they did not say much as they walked on through the forests.
