So Strongarm showed her how to make a groove in the log where the wood meal could collect.
Soon the wood meal began to glow, and she gently fanned it with her hand.
She placed dry tinder close beside it and fanned it into a blaze.
Then Strongarm told her to teach her daughters how to make fire.
He and Firekeeper were growing old, but he knew their clan would always need fire.
Firekeeper remembered what Strongarm said, and she taught her daughters to make fire.
A few years after all the clans on the hills had some one who knew how to make fire.
In some clans a woman did this work.
In others young girls did it.