flint.

'I say,' said Robert, 'what a lot we could teach them if we
stayed here!'

'I expect they could teach us something too,' said Cyril. 'Did
you notice that flint bracelet the woman had that Anthea gave the
collar to? That must have taken some making. Look here, they'll
get suspicious if we talk among ourselves, and I do want to know
about how they do things. Let's get the girl to show us round,
and we can be thinking about how to get the Amulet at the same
time. Only mind, we must keep together.'

Anthea beckoned to the girl, who was standing a little way off
looking wistfully at them, and she came gladly.

'Tell us how you make the bracelets, the stone ones,' said Cyril.

'With other stones,' said the girl; 'the men make them; we have
men of special skill in such work.'

'Haven't you any iron tools?'

'Iron,' said the girl, 'I don't know what you mean.' It was the
first word she had not understood.

'Are all your tools of flint?' asked Cyril. 'Of course,' said the
girl, opening her eyes wide.

I wish I had time to tell you of that talk. The English children