"You'd all be
stung if there were any wasps at home. That's their house and they get
awfully mad."
The children looked back fearfully at the object of their attack.
"You've had a narrow escape," insisted Ethel, and then to divert their
minds from what had happened she made them stretch themselves in a line
and hunt for arrow heads all the way back to their mothers.
"Thith ith a funny thtone," exclaimed Dicky, picking up a rather large
oblong stone that had a groove all around its middle.
"It looks like Lake Chautauqua. doesn't it? You know they say that
'Chautauqua' means 'the bag tied in the middle'."
"Did the Indianth uthe it?" Dicky asked as he laid his trophy in
Roger's hand.
"I rather think they did," returned Roger excitedly. "It looks to me
as if this was a hammer or a hatchet. See--" and he held it out for
the girls and James and Tom to see, "they must have lashed this head on
to a stout stick by a cord tied where this crease is."
"It would make a first-rate hammer," commended James.
"The Indians didn't manufacture as many of these as they did arrow
heads, because, of course, they didn't need as many.
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