8 Why did the Cave People want to possess the weapons of strong and brave men? 9 Did they think a man’s weapons possessed the characteristics of the man? 10 Did they believe the dead heard what you said about them? XI THE FIRST PRIEST 1 Why did a dead man’s enemies speak well of him? 2 Did the Cave People believe that a dead man could injure them? 3 Or that he could help them? 4 Did they, very naturally, exaggerate the virtues of the dead until the dead seemed superhuman? 5 When the Cave Dwellers were driven to a colder climate did they learn to plant? To clothe themselves? Why? 6 Who was generally chief of the tribe? Why? 7 If a Cave Man told the people that the spirit of a dead chief had laid commands upon him, would they believe him? 8 How did ancient priests happen to happen? 9 Might not people sometimes fabricate stories of their interviews with the spirits of dead chiefs? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. End of Project Gutenberg's Stories of the Cave People, by Mary E. Marcy