The Indians did not like to take the acorns, so they waited three days. By that time they were so hungry that they could wait no longer.
Docas built a fire near the woodpecker’s tree. The smoke that went up from it told the woodpecker that he would have to go. After a little he did not care to stay, for the smoke spoiled the acorns for him. So he flew away.
Docas then climbed the tree and pulled off the bark. That let the acorns fall out and then the Indians gathered them up and put them into a new storehouse, ready for future use.
HOW DOCAS CAUGHT THE GRASSHOPPERS
ONE day in September, Docas and the rest of the family were all seated round a large basket. They were eating their acorn mush. Just as Docas put his stick in to get some, he heard something go “click” behind him.
He thought to himself, “The grasshoppers are getting thicker.”
He lifted his stick, and there in the mush on the end of it was a grasshopper.
“Look!” said Docas to Heema.
“Let me get him out,” said Heema, laughing and picking up a stick from the ground. Heema lifted the grasshopper out of the mush.
Then Docas said, “Let’s catch grasshoppers to-morrow.”