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241 – How the First Letter was Written

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Tugamai Bopselai and Tafi, Daddy and I Don't Know How to Write

As soon as Tafi could run about, she went everywhere with her daddy Tugamai. Sometimes they would now come home to the cave to live her hungry. One day he accidentally broke his spear by jabbing it down too hard in the bottom of the river. He took out a leather bag full of reindeer sinews and strips of leather; lumps of bees waxed in resin were also used. A stranger man came along the river, but he belonged to a far tribe, the tower-us,. And he did not understand one word of TUGamai's language.

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