Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . ONS 199 stones—all of rude make. There are also bits of rudepottery, which, show that these men knew a little morethan the cave men; they knew how to bake clay. Theywere ahead of the cave men also in having one tamedanimal, the dog. No bones were found of any tamedanimal except the dog, and this seems to show that itwas the earliest animal tamed by man. Mounds like those in Denmark are found in manyother countries: in our own land where the red menlived; in Africa, the land of the black man; and inAsia, where the brown man lives. Wher
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . ONS 199 stones—all of rude make. There are also bits of rudepottery, which, show that these men knew a little morethan the cave men; they knew how to bake clay. Theywere ahead of the cave men also in having one tamedanimal, the dog. No bones were found of any tamedanimal except the dog, and this seems to show that itwas the earliest animal tamed by man. Mounds like those in Denmark are found in manyother countries: in our own land where the red menlived; in Africa, the land of the black man; and inAsia, where the brown man lives. Wherever man hasled a wandering life, eating fish and leaving their bonesbehind him, these heaps are found; and they are al-ways by the sea or by a river. —Makgaket A. McIntyke. mammoth: an animal similar to the elephant, but much larger. Itlived on the earth thousands of years ago.—cave men: at the time thatmammoths lived on the earth, men lived in caves and had only stone im-plements. They wore the skins of animals and spent most of their 200 A READER FOR THE FIFTH GRADE THE TWO HERD-BOYS Part I When I was in Germany, several years ago, I spenta few weeks of the summer-time in a small town amongthe Thuringian Mountains. This is a range on theborders of Saxony, something like our Green Moun-tains in height and form, but much darker in color,on account of the thick forests of fir which cover had visited this region several times before, andknew not only the roads but most of the footpaths, andhad made some acquaintance with the people; so Ifelt quite at home among them, and was fond of tak-ing long walks up to the ruins of castles on the peaks,or down into the wild, rocky dells between them. One day, during my ramble, I came upon twosmaller herds of cattle, each tended by a single were near each other, but not in the same pas-ture, for there was a deep hollow, or dell, they could plainly see each other, andeven talk whenever
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