“A shelter for our children, which will protect them from the cold and rain.
“Now that it is cold and the trees have lost their leaves we need shelter for our children.”
“Do not these evergreen trees protect you from the rain and snow?” asked Rago.
“Not always,” answered the woman.
“We have carried our fire to the evergreen trees, because they are the only trees which will protect us in the winter.
“But the needles of the evergreen trees do not protect us so well as the leaves of the birch and oak trees.”
“I have never seen a shelter before,” said Rago.
“No,” said the woman, “this is the first house which the Tree-dwellers have made.”
Rago went to the fire. The Tree-dweller woman was piling cedar logs upon it.
“Where are all of the men?” asked Rago.