Why would the Tree-dwellers want to use fire?
How would they learn to take care of it?
Why could they live in a better way after they had fire?
How People Got Their First Homes
The Tree-dwellers still thought that the fire was alive.
The red monster still frightened them.
Whenever they saw it they ran away.
Bodo, too, was afraid of the fire.
So he tried to be good to it and thus make it his friend.
He gave it wood to eat.