Bighorn saw the new weapons, but he said little about them. For Bighorn knew better than to make fun of weapons Greybeard used.
Nothing pleased Flaker more than to be able to help Greybeard. And so he cherished the new tool that he used in shaping reindeer horn. Sometimes he showed it to Greybeard, who was always kind to the boys. But even the wise old man had no idea of what a wonderful tool it was.
The other Cave-men saw the tool, but they thought very little about it. They cared a great deal about the weapons they used in the chase. But few of the Cave-men ever thought of making anything they did not need right away.
And so little was said about the new tool which was a knife with two blades, a saw, and a file, all in one. Nobody dreamed at that time that the little tool was the forerunner of a great change.
THINGS TO DO
If you can strike off a large flint flake with three faces, see if you can make it into a knife-saw-file.
Look at the picture, or at the real tool you have made, and find the plain face that can be used as a file.
Find the two edges which can be used as knives. Find the edge which has a crest of teeth, and which can be used as a saw.
Draw one of these pictures:—
The women chopping prongs from the beam of the antler.
Flaker sawing the prongs off the antler.