One day Firekeeper took a torch and started out over the hills to see what she could find to eat.
She found winter-greens with red berries half hidden among the dry oak leaves.
She ate some and gathered a handful; then she passed on over the hills.
The sap of the spruce trees was beginning to flow and had hardened in places upon the trunks.
Firekeeper bit off a lump and chewed it until she made it into gum.
Then she bit off other lumps, and even bit into the inner bark.
She liked the taste of the bark, so she peeled off large pieces and ate them.
Then she gave a shrill call and listened until she heard a call from the cave.
In a moment she called again.