106 STORIES OF EAKTH AND SKY 



chiefs assembled. On the way we passed Wenona, 

 and Sacoit signed to her that she should touch my 

 point ; thus, for the second time, I felt the magic 

 of her fingers. There on the rock lay an empty 

 skin of a gigantic Bad One ; in it were crammed 

 some arrows, and I was placed with them. Soon 

 Sacoit left for a long journey, carrying the snake 

 skin full of arrows with him. 



" Many days we travelled, resting but never 

 sleeping, until we were close upon a clearing such 

 as I had never seen among Red Brothers. There 

 were no wigwams like theirs, but strange, square 

 lodges built of the trunks of trees laid crosswise, 

 with traplike openings in them, and strange beasts 

 were walled in pits and pens. 



" As I gazed from out the skin of Crotalus, my 

 eyes saw a Stone Giant walking toward one of 

 these lodges. The picture writing said truly, his 

 body was covered all but the face, and as he 

 walked slowly and heavily the covering that he 

 wore glistened in the light, and I knew it could 

 not be stone." 



" It must have been armour steel armour," 

 interrupted Anne. " You know, Bek-wuk, when 

 the Pilgrim Fathers first came over to settle in 

 this country it was so long ago that some of them 

 wore kind of steel coats and hats to protect them 



