He heard the popping of individual firecrackers and the louder bang of one of the "giants" that always made Nawadlook put her fingers in her pretty ears.

He crept stealthily over a knoll, down through a hollow, and then up again to the opposite crest.

It was as he had thought.

He could see Keok a hundred yards away, standing on the trunk of a fallen tree, and as he looked, she tossed another bunch of sputtering crackers away from her.

The others were probably circled about her, out of his sight, watching her performance.