They planned the search methodically.
"I saw a lot of Boy Scouts one day clear up the field in Central Park
in which they had been drilling," said Tom Watkins. "They stretched in
a long line across the whole field and then they walked slowly along
looking for anything that might have been dropped in the course of
their evolutions."
"Did they find much?"
"You'd be surprised to know how much!"
"Let's do the same thing here. If we stretch across the field then
every one is responsible for just a small section under his eyes--"
"--and feet."
"--and feet. I wish we had an arrow head to show the women so they'd
know exactly what to look for."
"Father had one in the cabinet," said Roger, "and I put it in my pocket
for just this purpose. I don't know where he got it, and it may not be
of exactly the kind of stone these New Jersey Indians used, but it will
show the shape all right."
"They always used flint, didn't they?" asked Margaret.
"Flint or obsidian or the hardest stone they could find, whatever it
was."
"Bone?"
"Sometimes. I saw quite large bone heads at the Natural History
Museum.
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