The Tree-Dwellers

nted for something to eat. Sometimes she was very hungry. She had hard work to find enough food. She could not go to a store to buy it. There were no stores then. She could not buy food of a farmer. There were no farmers then. All the plants were growing wild. All the animals were wild, too. Sharptooth was afraid of them. That is why she climbed the trees.

THINGS TO DO

Go out where everything is growing wild and find a place where the Tree-dwellers might have lived. Find as many wild foods as you can. Notice what places have the best wild foods. Find a place where the Tree-dwellers might have protected themselves from the wild beasts. Find a picture of Sharptooth running away from a wild animal. Tell a story about this picture.

[Illustration: "Sharptooth was afraid of wild animals"]

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THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Did you find a place where the Tree-dwellers might have lived? What kind of a place was it? D