_Look at the antlers in the pictures on pages 16, 17, 108, and 121. Find the part that would make such a wedge as is shown on page 119. Find the part that would make such a hammer as is shown on page 74. Find a part for a chisel or scraper. Find the long beam that was used in making such a dagger as is shown on page 123. Do you think that Flaker's first dagger was carved in this way? Can you tell why the Cave-men carved their weapons?_ _Act out the part of this story you like best._ _Draw one of these pictures:_-- _Flaker watching for Fleetfoot's return._ _The children bringing antlers to Flaker._ _The women at work making tools._ _Fleetfoot showing the dagger to Bighorn._ _Greybeard and Chipper asking Flaker to make daggers._ _Make as many simple tools as you can out of bone or horn. Find ways of using them._ XXVIII THINGS TO THINK ABOUT What do you think Flaker used in cutting the antler? What tools will he need to use in making weapons of bone or horn? What do you think the first saws were? How do you think people came to use saws? How large do you think they were? What are files used for? Can you think what the first files were like? What do you think they were used for? _How Flaker Invented the Saw_ [Illustration: _A small antler._] How glad Flaker was when Greybeard and Chipper asked him to make them some daggers! He looked at all the antlers the children had brought. He thought of the reindeer he had seen with antlers such as these. He remembered the handsome reindeer with their deadly weapons, and at length he chose the large antlers which had belonged to a handsome stag. Flaker looked at the long beams and decided to use them for daggers. He took his knife to cut off the prongs, but he could scarcely cut them with a knife. Flaker knew that the women cut the prongs with a chopper, but a chopper was a woman's tool. And Flaker wanted to be like the men. And so he kept working with his knife, but he wished he had taken a beam which the women had left. [Illustration: _A knife with two blades, a saw, and a file, all in one._] When he was tired using his knife, he played with some flint flakes. He ran his fingers over the sharp edges. Then he carelessly pressed off tiny flakes. But Flaker soon tired of this and he picked up the antler again. He pushed a flint flake back and forth upon one of the prongs of the antler. Flaker was simply playing at first; but when he saw that the flint was cutting, his play became real work. And he kept on pushing and pulling the flake until the prong fell to the ground. Then he sawed off other prongs, but he did not know he was sawing. Flaker had never seen a saw and he did not know what it was. He did not know that when he pressed off the tiny flakes he made the teeth of a flint saw.