_Make believe that you are doing some of the work that the Cave-men did, and see if any one can guess what it is._ _See if you can cook something over the coals._ _Ask some one to read you a story that Charles Lamb wrote about roast pig._ VI THINGS TO THINK ABOUT How do you think the Cave-men would act at a feast? What would they use for dishes? What would they do to entertain themselves and their neighbors? When would the neighbors go home? _The Feast_ Nobody knew just when the feast began. Nobody set the table, for there was no table to set. But the women brought bowls they had made out of hollow gourds. Before the meat was half cooked everybody was eating. [Illustration: _A gourd_] Some ate thick slices that had been partly roasted on the sharp sticks. Others chewed raw meat from bones which they tore from the carcass. The children sucked strips of raw meat and picked the scraps from the ground. When the women lifted the ribs out of the hot ashes, they found a nice gravy. They dipped up the gravy in their gourd bowls and gave it to the men. Strongarm dipped some up with a bone dipper that had been made from the skull of a cave-bear. Then he tore out a rib from the carcass and gnawed the meat from the bone. [Illustration: _The Feast_] They all held what they ate in their hands. They all ate very fast, and they ate a long time. At last their hunger was satisfied, and they began to crack the marrow bones and scrape the marrow out with sharp sticks and bones. When the men became tired of sucking the bones, they tossed them to the women and children. Then the men joined in a hunting-dance while the women beat time with the bones. The women chanted, too, as they beat time. They danced until all became tired and the visitors were ready to go. Then Firekeeper loaded pieces of meat upon the backs of the women, and all gathered around to see the neighbors start home. As soon as they were gone the Cave-men prepared to rest for the night. [Illustration: _A marrow spoon_] THINGS TO DO _Take turns in doing something that the Cave-men did at the feast, and let the children guess what it is._ _Find some good marrow bones and crack them._ _Find out whether we use marrow bones for anything to-day._ _If you think that you can, make something of the marrow bones._ _Can you think why bones are filled with marrow?_ _See if you can beat time with marrow bones so as to help some one do his work._ _See if you can make dishes of pumpkins, squashes, melons, cucumbers, or anything else that you can find._ VII THINGS TO THINK ABOUT If you were going to live in a cave that had been taken from a wild animal, what would you do to make it comfortable? What do you think the Cave-men did? What do you think the Cave-men found in the cave? What kind of beds do you think they made?