"What is it?" the Sun asked.
"Fire," Mother Nature replied. "Soon they will be making Heat work for them."
CHAPTER IX
THE COMING OF FIRE
When Mother Nature got ready to send Fire to the cave men, she called Heat and Cold and Wind and Rain to her and explained what she wanted them to do.
"My little people down there," she said, "need something to keep them warm, during the Winter, and also they need something to cook their food with, and later on to help them make pottery, and smelt metals, and do all the wonderful new things I am going to teach them to do. Without Fire, they can never be anything but savages, the way they are now. So we must send them Fire."
"Fire," said Cold, puffing out a great cloud of frost. "I have no Fire to give them."
"Nor I," said Wind and Rain.