not know it. So we watched the ten men attack Boo-oogh's tree. He
made a good fight, but he had no chance. We looked on. When some
of the Meat-Eaters tried to climb the tree, Boo-oogh had to show
himself in order to drop stones on their heads, whereupon the other
Meat-Eaters, who were waiting for that very thing, shot him full of
arrows. And that was the end of Boo-oogh.

"Next, the Meat-Eaters got One-Eye and his family in his cave.
They built a fire in the mouth and smoked him out, like we smoked
out the bear there to-day. Then they went after Six-Fingers, up
his tree, and, while they were killing him and his grown son, the
rest of us ran away. They caught some of our women, and killed two
old men who could not run fast and several children. The women
they carried away with them to the Big Valley.

"After that the rest of us crept back, and, somehow, perhaps
because we were in fear and felt the need for one another, we
talked the thing over. It was our first council--our first real
council. And in that council we formed our first tribe. For we
had learned the lesson. Of the ten Meat-Eaters, each man had had
the strength of ten, for the ten had fought as one man. They had
added their strength together. But of the thirty families and the
sixty men of us, we had had the strength of but one man, for each
had fought alone.

"It was a great talk we had, and it was hard talk, for we did not
have the words then as now with which to talk. The Bug made some
of the words long afterward, and so did others of us make words
from time to time. But in the end we agreed to add our strength
together and to be as one man when the Meat-Eaters came over the