They came bounding down the hillside at once. Hawk-Eye met them at the cave-entrance. “Here’s our home,” he said, pointing to the cave. “Nothing could be better. I have found a spring of fresh water near by! It is safer than any place we have ever found. Go in and see!”
Limberleg went in and looked all about. She was just as pleased with it as Hawk-Eye was. She didn’t even say, “Let’s see if we can’t find another cave that suits us better.”
She just threw her deer-skin down on the floor of the cave and laid her spear on one of the shelving rocks and began to live there right away. They always had their weapons with them, all of them. So there was nothing more to do but start a fire at the cave-mouth and begin to get supper. It was just as easy as moving into a furnished flat.
Hawk-Eye went back to the top of the hill and brought down the deer. He also brought some live fire-brands from the fire he had kindled. With these he started a new fire at the cave-mouth.
While Limberleg cut up the meat and the Twins broiled great pieces of it over the coals, Hawk-Eye took his stone axe and cut a rough path through the underbrush
from the cave-entrance to the spring, and another to the hill-top. The paths were so hidden by tall weeds and bushes that they could run through them without being seen.
When at last they sat down beside the fire at the cave-entrance to eat their first dinner of roast venison in their new home, they felt as rich as—well it’s really quite impossible to tell you just how rich they did feel.
