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stone tomahawk, could approach near enough to kill the swift-footed 

 animals of the drift period, is explained by the fact that wild animals 

 and birds do not naturally regard man as their enemy till he has 

 taught them differently by attacking and wounding them. How 

 often has the sportsman in the recesses of the Maine woods seen 

 the ruffed grouse, only a few feet distant, walking leisurely across 

 his path ; while in cultivated sections of our country he is the 

 most wary of birds, often disappointing the sportsman by springing 

 up before him many yards beyond gun-shot. Also the squirrels, 

 and even the deer, in regions where they have never been molested, 

 do not exhibit that extreme fear of man which is usually attributed 

 to them as part of their nature. It is also to be remembered that 

 during the period of the drift, man must have been few in numbef 

 compared with the game which he pursued, so that it took a long 

 time before the animals over an extended area became aware that 

 he was an enemy more dangerous than his size and appearance had 

 led them at first to infer. 



But as the game became aware of this fact, man had to devise 

 weapons which could be projected from the hunter to the now more 

 wary and more distant game, and the necessity for such weapons led 

 to the invention of the bow and arrow, the sling, the bola, the boom- 

 erang, and the blow-gun. 



Even in our own days we have seen the change in the range of fire- 

 arms advance with the increase of wariness in the game of the West. 

 This education of animals in the knowledge of man's killing power is 

 also especially notable in the difficulty of now approaching the wild 

 turkey, compared with the manner in which it could be killed during 

 the early period of the history of this country. 



The Cave-dwelling Hunter and Fisherman. 



The men of the drift were succeeded by the men of the caves, — 

 so called because they used these natural shelters as dwellings. The 

 flint and bone implements of these men, and the relics of their feasts, 

 are found in the caves of Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Eng- 

 land ; but especially notable are the caves of the valleys of the rivers 

 Dordogne and Vezere, in France. 



