Their parents would not give them the meat. The boys had eaten nothing all day, but they took their empty bowls and had a mock feast. They piled their dry bowls after this empty feast and danced around the mound.
Their heads and their hearts were very light. They forgot their hunger. They danced faster than ever [[175]]before; their feet left the ground and they were dancing in the air. The six boys were around their leader who was singing.
Up, up, went the boys into the sky. Their parents saw them and called to them to come back. They could not do it. Whirling, floating, dancing, they took their places in the sky, where every one may see them.
The leader stopped his singing and tried to return. As he was not content in the Great Star Wigwam, his light is not so bright as that of the six other stars. [[176]]
XXXIII. THE CHIPMUNK’S BLACK STRIPES
(Iroquois)
he porcupine was chosen head chief of the animals because nothing could hurt him. This was when animals had tribes and chiefs like the Indians.
Soon after the porcupine was made head chief he called a great council. When the animals were all seated in a ring around the council fire, he asked them this question: “Shall we have night all the time or daylight?”