the hill-sides and plant our corn and fat roots in all the high
mountain valleys. In that day we will be so strong that all the
wild animals will flee before us and perish. And nothing will
withstand us, for the strength of each man will be the strength of
all men in the world.'

"So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was
a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very
strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those
that stood still said he went backward and should be killed. And
the poor people helped stone him, and were fools. We were all
fools, except those who were fat and did no work. The fools were
called wise, and the wise were stoned. Men who worked did not get
enough to eat, and the men who did not work ate too much.

"And the tribe went on losing strength. The children were weak and
sickly. And, because we ate not enough, strange sicknesses came
among us and we died like flies. And then the Meat-Eaters came
upon us. We had followed Tiger-Face too often over the divide and
killed them. And now they came to repay in blood. We were too
weak and sick to man the big wall. And they killed us, all of us,
except some of the women, which they took away with them. The Bug
and I escaped, and I hid in the wildest places, and became a hunter
of meat and went hungry no more. I stole a wife from the Meat-
Eaters, and went to live in the caves of the high mountains where
they could not find me. And we had three sons, and each son stole
a wife from the Meat-Eaters. And the rest you know, for are you
not the sons of my sons?"

"But the Bug?" queried Deer-Runner. "What became of him?"