A SKIN SCRAPER
He knew that the skin would make a fine warm covering for him next winter. Mewanee’s mother would skin the buffalo with a sharp knife and stretch the skin in the sun to dry.
Now that the chief had finished his supper, Mewanee, mother and baby brother would eat.
Mewanee’s mother called to him and he hurried to the place his father had just left.
BABY BROTHER’S CRADLE
Mewanee was hungry and quickly ate the food which his mother put before him. Baby brother awakened and wanted supper too. Mother took the cradle from the peg and fed her little boy some of the corn cake which had been left.
Suddenly the chief got up from his skin mat and rushed out of the wigwam.
Mewanee rushed out also. He wondered why his father stood so silent and looked anxiously toward a hill in the distance.
He stood by his father’s side and said nothing.