He told of awls and spindles that were made of this wood and used to bore holes through teeth and claws.
Such wood as this could not always be found, so people used other stems.
They tried to find something that was hard enough to bore the teeth and claws.
Sometimes they used sand with a spindle of wood.
At other times they fastened a hard flint point at the end of a wooden spindle.
When they used the sand in boring, they no longer twirled the spindle on their thighs.
They could not use the sand unless they held the spindle upright.
Strongarm showed them how it was done, and all the people tried it.
It was hard work for one person to twirl the spindle steadily.
So they began to twirl in an easier way which they had learned when they were young.