There they are!
The rats are in the pili grass:
They sleep, the rats are asleep:
Let them awaken;
Let them return!”
And when he said this charm the rats all came back. Pi-ko-i then let his arrow fly. It struck ten rats, and [[74]]the point of it held a bat. The rats were all made fast by their whiskers.
When Mai-ne-le saw this he said: “It is a draw. The boy shot ten rats, and I shot ten rats.” The people all agreed with Mai-ne-le—it was a draw, they said. But Pi-ko-i would not have it so. “The bat must count as a rat,” he said. “I have killed, not ten, but eleven rats.” The crowd would not agree. Pi-ko-i kept saying, “It counts as a rat according to the old words:
“ ‘The bat is in the stormless season—
He is your younger brother, O Rat:
Squeak to him.’ ”