of course the man was wild too. he was dreadfully wild. he didn’t even begin to be tame till he met the woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. she picked out a nice dry cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail-down, across the opening of the cave; and she said, ‘wipe you feet, dear, when you come in, and now we’ll keep house.’