Dum cuts it

                                 

Dum and Yum were now settled in village life, hunting, fishing and growing vegetables and harvesting fruit in season. Their hut housed all they needed placed on the floor or hung from the walls. They sat on the floor to eat, lay on it to sleep and the children played on it too. After a particularly wet period Yum could stand it no longer and slapped Dum on his arm and pointed to the mess. Dum knew what the problem was as the children played chasey round his legs

He nodded at Yum and went outside in the pouring rain with his axe and knife. Yum knew he could solve the problem or if not there would be one less inside the hut. The children wanted to go with him but she shook her head so they ran round in circles again.

Dum walked to the forest where the trees shade kept him dry and he had a think. He gathered and trimmed some branches to take home. Starting back the sky brightened up which would help.

Some village children were playing in the puddles and Yum now greeted him with a gentle caress, raising her eyebrows at his bits and pieces. She was going to say it doesn't matter any more but could see he was prepared to make something. 

He cut and shaped the pieces of wood then fixing them together until he had finished one piece. It was a three legged stool, not big enough for him or even for Yum but one child could sit on it. It was stable on its three legs so he showed it to Yum.

Yum suggested making more to sit on or keep things off the floor. She thought of other things too such as shelves on the walls! Dum looked shocked, far from coming up with an answer for a simple request for a seat for the children on a rainy day he had to make furniture now for the whole hut.

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