“Then we will spear them.”
They jumped about in the water. They splashed it all over each other. They laughed and shouted and made all the noise they could. As they stopped for a moment to take breath, Docas said, “See the fish swim down the creek. They are scared.”
The battle lasted until the rancheria was in sight, and by that time all the fish were in the swimming hole. Then Massea said, “Now we must build a fence above them.”
When the fence was built, Docas said, “Now the fish cannot swim away, for there is a fence below them and a fence above them.”
That night Massea said, “We will build fires on the bank of the creek. The fish will come near to look at the light; then we will spear them.”
And so it happened. The men speared enough fish that night to give them something to eat for several days.
MASSEA’S STOREHOUSE
ONE day in October, Massea said to Docas, “Come, Docas, you must help me make a storehouse to-day, so that we shall have something to eat by and by.”
Massea and Docas went out into the woods. They hunted until they found an oak tree with two branches growing straight out at about the same height from the ground.
Massea said, “Climb the tree, Docas;” so Docas scrambled up.