“I don’t think that you will,” said Burnt Face; “but when I am killed I shall live again through my own power.”
Burnt Face went out to fight, and was killed with the others. Now a little baby came right up out of the spittle of Burnt Face, a boy. The women took him and washed him. In one hour he had grown a good deal, in two hours still more. On the following day he had full growth.
Then this young man who had risen from the spittle went out of the house. He followed the course of the struggle, found all Kedila’s people dead, struck each with his foot, turned him over. All came to life and rose up, as well as ever.
When Jewinna came for his wives, their brothers and brothers-in-law gave the women presents; but when his two wives and two sons went home with him and old Jewinna saw them coming, he took two bearskins quickly, and when they were on top of the sweat-house, he caught the young boys, put them into the bearskins, rolled them up, and put them away to be Weanmauna.
SUKONIA’S WIVES AND THE ICHPUL SISTERS
PERSONAGES