96 STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



household. One word belonged to man to carry 

 out, the other to the woman, and these two words 

 were Provide and Prepare. 



" The Red Brothers did the hunting and fishing, 

 provided the meat, the skins for tent covers and 

 robes, and caught the fish ; the Squaws prepared 

 the food, carried it home, prepared the skins, dried 

 the fish. The Brothers made war ; the Squaws 

 made ready for it. It was their law ; there was 

 no impoliteness in it because they saw none. 



" Presently three Red Brothers came along the 

 bank where I was lying, pointing to me and many 

 other fragments like me, some larger and some 

 smaller. They seemed glad that we were there, 

 and presently others came and began to gather us 

 up in heaps, striking the larger pieces skilfully 

 with greater stones until they fell in fragments fit 

 to carry. 



" Next day I found myself in a half-dark wig- 

 wam, covered with bark. Light came in the door- 

 way and also through a hole left at the top that 

 smoke, the breath of heat, might escape through 

 it. In the doorway sat a man ; before him was a 

 large smooth flat stone; in his right hand he held 

 another stone with which he chipped grains from 

 a still smaller fragment his left hand grasped. I 

 watched him closely, for, as he chipped, the flint 



