White Maiden put a wonderful dress of deerskin and a string of golden beads on Little Scar-Face, and she was more beautiful than any of the other maidens.
And Big Moose made her his wife.
THE HUNTER WHO FORGOT
Once there was a great hunter who was very rich. He had many strings of shell money around his neck. The Indians call these shells wampum.
In the woods near his home lived a big white elk that used to come and talk to him. The elk told him what was right and what was wrong. The Great Spirit sent the elk to him.
When he obeyed the elk, he was happy and everything went well, but when he did not obey, he was not happy, and everything went wrong.
One day the elk said to him:
"You are too hungry for wampum. Look! your neck and shoulders are covered with long strings of wampum. Some of it belongs to your wife. You took it from her. You took some of it from other Indians and gave them deer meat that was not fit to eat. You are not honest."
