104 STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



swiftly ! Did a Wild Duck speed by, I overtook 

 it ! Did a Deer bound through the woodland, 

 lightly as a cloud shadow, I bounded after him 

 and yet was there to meet him ! 



" With the harvest came yet more feasting and 

 singing. Wenona joined the other women in strip- 

 ping the ears of Maize from out the husks, and I, 

 peeping from Sacoit's quiver, was watching her. 



" As she parted the husks a blood red ear of 

 Maize was left between her fingers. This rare 

 red ear is a love token with the Red Brothers, 

 and swift as I fly I could not outspeed the glance 

 that sped between Sacoit and Wenona. The war- 

 riors nodded approvingly, and the women laughed 

 and jostled ; but from that moment she, who had 

 looked Wabeno in the face unflinchingly, grew 



