Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . e bone of horse or a cow. It is big enoughto have belonged to an elephant. Well, no matter whatit came from, he said, throwing it aside, it is neithersand nor gravel, so it is nothing to me. As he dug on, he threw out some rudely shapedstones. These are queer, too, he said, but theywill not sell for gravel. And away went the stonesfrom his shovel. That evening a learned man from Paris, the mostbeautiful city of France, was walking beside the riverand looking at the sunset clouds in sky and water. There in the pit lay the big bones. He
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . e bone of horse or a cow. It is big enoughto have belonged to an elephant. Well, no matter whatit came from, he said, throwing it aside, it is neithersand nor gravel, so it is nothing to me. As he dug on, he threw out some rudely shapedstones. These are queer, too, he said, but theywill not sell for gravel. And away went the stonesfrom his shovel. That evening a learned man from Paris, the mostbeautiful city of France, was walking beside the riverand looking at the sunset clouds in sky and water. There in the pit lay the big bones. He saw were clouds and sky! He knew that he waslooking at the bones of some animal long since gonefrom the earth! For years after that, he watched thework in the gravel pits and carried away any bonesand shaped stones that were dug out. He studiedthem and found that some of the bones were those ofthe mammoth, and that there were bones of the rhi-noceros, too. At last he showed the bones and the stones to the THE CAVE MEN AND THEIR WEAPONS 197. learned men in Paris, and said, These stones are very old; they are as old as the ground in which they lay. They were shaped by men who knew very little and had very little, and who used them for weapons. Near the stone weapons were these, bones of the mammoth and the rhinoceros. So those animals lived at the time the men did, and in this country. The learned men listened, but did not believe what he said. A few years after that, however—about twenty years—other shaped stones were found on the banks of the river that flows by the great city of London, in England, across the narrow water from France. Andin Denmark, another country nearFrance, still more shaped stones werefound, and, with them, bones of thereindeer. Then the learned men had to be-lieve that men who shaped stones oncelived in England and France and Den-mark ; and that at the same time livedthe mammoth, the rhinoceros, and the reindeer; and that the men had v
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