Legs and all owners of things paid Dog-Tooth and Sea-Lion and Big-
Fat their share in money. And they paid the guards and watchers in
money, and the guards and watchers bought their food with the
money. And, because money was cheap, Dog-Tooth made many more men
into guards. And, because money was cheap to make, a number of men
began to make money out of shell themselves. But the guards stuck
spears in them and shot them full of arrows, because they were
trying to break up the tribe. It was bad to break up the tribe,
for then the Meat-Eaters would come over the divide and kill them
all.

"Big-Fat was the voice of God, but he took Broken-Rib and made him
into a priest, so that he became the voice of Big-Fat and did most
of his talking for him. And both had other men to be servants to
them. So, also, did Little-Belly and Three-Legs and Pig-Jaw have
other men to lie in the sun about their grass houses and carry
messages for them and give commands. And more and more were men
taken away from work, so that those that were left worked harder
than ever before. It seemed that men desired to do no work and
strove to seek out other ways whereby men should work for them.
Crooked-Eyes found such a way. He made the first fire-brew out of
corn. And thereafter he worked no more, for he talked secretly
with Dog-Tooth and Big-Fat and the other masters, and it was agreed
that he should be the only one to make fire-brew. But Crooked-Eyes
did no work himself. Men made the brew for him, and he paid them
in money. Then he sold the fire-brew for money, and all men
bought. And many strings of money did he give Dog-Tooth and Sea-
Lion and all of them.

"Big-Fat and Broken-Rib stood by Dog-Tooth when he took his second