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Updated: June 3, 2025
Then those men ran and pulled out their spears and stood farther back and threw again. Each man threw many times. Strongarm's spear stood oftenest in the tree from the longest distance. "Strongarm's eye is best!" the others shouted. "His arm is strongest!" After that a young man cried, "I have flying feet! Who will run with me?" "I will!" "I will!"
While the meat was cooking, Flint was telling about Burr and her little family; and of Strongarm's surprise at the making of fire; and of the lion hunt; and of the sleeping tiger they had seen on the way home. After the hungry man and boy had eaten great pieces of the roasted meat, they went to the stone yard. There Thorn heard the sound of stone hammers and saw a big rocky place in the hillside.
Strongarm's young wife was named Burr. She was glad when she saw the meat. She took her stone knife quickly and cut up the meat, and threw the pieces on the hot coals. While the fire blazed and snapped and cooked the meat, the boys looked on with hungry eyes. When the meat was done, Burr pulled it from the fire with a long stick.
"Oho, Hickory!" called Strongarm, "what is it?" "A lion hunt!" shouted Hickory, and shook his spear. Strongarm's bold face lighted up. "Tell about it," he said. "A lion has come among the caves by the river. He kills the people and carries off the children. The women dare not go to the river for water. The men are afraid to go alone to hunt. So they want help to kill the lion.
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.
This he put around and around the ax handle, and pulled it tight. The boys stood by watching. "The wet string will shrink and draw up short," their father told them. "Then the ax will be very tight on the handle." The boys now tied on their ax handles with their father's help. And Flint tied on Burr's. Then all set to work with sandstone pebbles and rubbed them smooth. Strongarm's was soon done.
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