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snake skin, put in it hard round balls and hurled it 

 at Sacoit, with loud words of defiance. 



" I had dropped far from the other arrows, and 

 in passing out Sacoit seized and concealed me, 

 whom Wenona had touched, so I went back with 

 him to bear a bitter message to his tribe. When 

 we returned, we found Wenona had gone." 



" Then war began ; our warriors poured down 

 and harried the Stone Giants, and many that 

 were with them were not of stone, and we arrows 

 could pierce them, and flames from our dry sticks 

 devoured their lodges. 



" What it was all about I knew not ; 'but I saw 

 balls, such as Sacoit bore home, fly from the sticks 

 the Stone Giants carried and kill our young men 

 more quickly than I could kill a wild fowl. Food 

 was scarce, for there was scant time for hunting, 

 and maids, women, and children stayed close within 

 the village upon the cliff top. 



" One evening Kaw-kaw came flapping noiseless 

 to the village, an ominous sight indeed, and 

 Ko-ko-ko-ho exchanged greetings with him and 

 flew into the forest, followed by all the colony of 

 birds of field and tree. 



" Apuk-wa, the Bulrush, whispered, 4 They 

 come, the Stone Giants come, Wabun tells it I 



