Thus she answered: “I am Squ’tes,

The Little Fire....

I have lived in the deep green forest,

Even as you have for many ages,

Singing my songs to K’musom’n,

Unto our Father the mighty mountain;

And, because he well loved my music,

For a reward he sent me hither

To seek a youth whose name is Mipis,

Whom he wills that I should wed.”