At length she opened her lips and spoke.
“The cave-bears will get you,” was what she said.
But Bodo had thought of the bears.
“I am not afraid of the bears,” he said.
“They run when they see me with fire. I am going to sleep at the foot of this tree.”
Then Sharptooth was troubled.
She was anxious about Bodo.
She had taught him the best that she could.
But now he seemed to be risking his life.
She wondered how he could do it.