Then Strongarm showed them a bone awl that he had made to punch holes through seeds and thin shells.
“He took a round stick that had a sharp point and twirled it on his thigh”
But they could not punch holes through teeth and claws, so they learned to twirl the awls in their hands.
Strongarm did not know how people learned to do this, but he thought that they learned it when at play.
He took a round stick that had a sharp point and twirled it back and forth on his thigh.
The other Cave-men twirled, too, for they wanted to show the children how to bore holes.
The children soon learned how to do it.
Then Strongarm told them of a kind of wood whose surface was coated with sand.