Before many years had passed, the boys could make good weapons. They knew every spot on their own hunting ground. They knew the wild animals that lived there and what they liked to do. They knew each animal by its track. Each sound of the woods, each patch of light, they learned to read as you read a book.
THINGS TO DO
Name things you will have to learn before you are full-grown.
What kind of tests do you have to take?
Tell a story of the way the Cave-men tested Fleetfoot and Flaker.
Tell a story of all that you think happened the day that Fleetfoot learned that Greybeard was Nimble-finger.
Name the birds you can tell by their song. Name those you can tell by sight.
Draw one of these pictures:—
Testing Fleetfoot and Flaker.
Fleetfoot and Flaker in the workshop.
Fleetfoot discovers Nimble-finger.