ome of your
people far?'

"Man say: 'Very far!'

"'How many days' journey?'

"Man say: 'My heart is sad. I not count the days. The berries grow and
get ripe since I leave my lodge.'

"Raven say: 'Can you see your camp from here?'

"Man think that is foolish question and say nothing.

"Then the Raven rub some medicine on his eyes and say: 'Look!' The man
look and see his own camp. It was close. He see the people. He see the
smoke rising from the lodges. And at that wonderful thing the man
believe in the Raven's medicine.

"Then Raven say: 'Now take the wing and the arrow and go get your
wife.'

"So the man take those things and go to Thunder's lodge. He go in and
sit down by the door. Thunder sit inside and look at him with eyes of
lightning. But the man look up and see those many pairs of eyes hanging
up. And the eyes of his wife look at him, and he know them among all
those others.

"Thunder ask in a voice that shake the ground: 'Why you come here?'

"Man say: 'I looking for my wife that you steal from me. There hang her
eyes!'

"Thunder say: 'No man can enter my lodge and live!' He get up to strike
him. But the man point the raven's wing at him, and Thunder fall back on
his bed and shiver. But soon he is better, and get up again. Then the
man put the elk-horn arrow to his bow, and shoot it through the lodge of
rock. Right through that lodge of rock it make a crooked hole and let
the sunlight in.

"Thunder cry out: 'Stop! You are stronger! You have the great medicine.
You can have your wife. Take down her eyes.' So the man cut the string
that held them, and right away his wife stand beside him.

"Thunder say: 'Now you know me. I have great power. I live here in
summer, but when winter come I go far south where there is no winter.
Here is my pipe. It is medicine. Take it and keep it. When I come in
spring you fill and light this pipe, and you pray to me, you and all the
people. Because I bring the rain which make the berries big and ripe. I
bring the rain which make all things grow. So you must pray to me, you
and all the people.'

"That is how the people got the first medicine-pipe. It was long ago."

* * * * *

Mary went to her own little tent, and presently they heard her peaceful
snoring. The sound had the effect of giving body to the immensity of
stillness that surrounded them and held them. Sitting beside Clare,
looking out at the fire through the netting, Stono