Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 440
THE HATCHET. yards along the brook-side, until I had gatheredat least a score of curious relics of the long-departedred men, or rather of the games and sports andpastimes of the red mens hardy and active children. … ARROW-HEADS. North America, and, having no knowledge of ironas a metal, they were forced to make of stone orbone all their weapons, hunting and householdimplements. From this fact they are called, whenreferring to those early times, a stone-age people,and so, of course, the boys and girls of that…
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