[Projectapollo-announce] le of the shell

[Blackburn S. <di...@ca...>]

Ay. They played being grown up; and Thorn fought with the other little
hunters and caught and carried off a wife, and played living with her
and their children in a cave. The men ate for a long time, but at last
they had enough. Then they began to break up the tusks of the mammoth,
and they gave a piece to each man who had helped to kill the
animal. "To wear on your necklace," they said. And they gave a piece to
Thorn
because he had found the mired mammoth. Strongarm looked at
him proudly then, and the boy stood straight and tall and held his head
high. A man standing near him snatched for the piece of tusk, but
Strongarm shouted, "Get off!" and scowled and shook his fist. The man
grew angry and raised his stone ax. Strongarm snatched his, and in a
minute there was a clash of stone axes. The other men stood around
and watched. They loved a good fight. Before long Strongarm's

ax crashed down on the man's head, and
he fell over and lay still. The others looked at him, and then went on
breaking

up the tusks.

After that every man grew busy, and began to cut as much meat from the
big bones of the mammoth as he could carry. One bone was all cut bare.
Three

men standing near it whispered

together. Then they lifted the bone and carried it toward a man

who could not make axes and was too lazy to hunt. They set it down
before him. "This is
your prize," they said, without a smile. Everybody was looking. The man
turned red and snatched a spear. But the other
men ran away and laughed. And everybody
laughed. Th