“We must not let it go out,” answered Strong-arm, “for if we did we would have no fire.”
“I do not wish to sleep on the ground,” said Goni. “I am afraid.”
“You may sleep in the trees if you wish,” said Strong-arm.
“Where will you sleep, Rago?” asked Strong-arm.
“I shall sleep on the ground,” answered Rago. “I am not afraid.”
So their mother found a bed in the evergreen trees for Goni and baby sister.
She, too, stretched herself on a limb and tied herself tightly to it so she would not fall.
There she could watch baby sister and Goni.
She could look down on the Tree-dwellers as they slept on the ground.
