The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone. By Margaret
.4. McIntyre. (George G. Harrap and Co. Is. 6d. net.)—Strongarm lives in a stalactite cave with his wife Burr, his two sons Thorn and Pineknot, and his baby daughter, afterwards called Honey. We are told how they fared, how they trapped and killed wild animals, 8:c. Then Burr's father, Flint, a maker of axes, comes over to see his daughter, and we hear about the flint factories of the prehistoric times. One of the two boys, in fact, takes to the flint business. Then, in process of time, a visit is paid to the Shellmound people, and we hear about primitive fishing. The people to whom we are introduced are clever, and on the whole amiable, though Strongarm kills a Shellmounder who tries to rob his son of a trophy. The said trophy is a bit of mammoth's tusk presented to him as a testimonial for having given first tidings of a mammoth having been bogged. Of course it may be said that the cavemen and moundmen did not progress quite so rapidly as they are made to do in this little story. But if many periods have to be compressed into a short space, something of the kind can hardly be avoided.
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