266 THE WORLD'S LUMBER ROOM. 



lets, hair-pins, and " safety-pins " (Fig. 54), and they made 

 a kind of bread of the "whole-meal" or rather "whole-grain" 

 variety, the grains being roasted, slightly ground, and merely 

 pressed into lumps. 



From the seeds and stones yet remaining, we find that 

 they had plums, raspberries, and apples ; and they also had 

 hazel and beech nuts, whose shells, with all their other 

 refuse, they threw into the water, never dreaming that cen- 

 turies and even thousands of years after they themselves 

 were gone, it would be brought to light and examined with 

 the deepest interest by the learned men of a new era. 



Fig. 54. IRON "SAFETY PIN" FOUND IN LAKE NEUCHATEL. 



