[Rolf In The Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton]@TWC D-Link bookRolf In The Woods CHAPTER 21 13/13
We are sorry to kill you.
Behold! we give you the honour of red streamers." Then bearing the rest they tramped back to camp. The meat wrapped in sacks to keep off the flies was hung in the shade, but the hide he buried in the warm mud of a swamp hole, and three days later, when the hair began to slip, he scraped it clean.
A broad ash wood hoop he had made ready and when the green rawhide was strained on it again the Indian had an Indian drum. It was not truly dry for two or three days and as it tightened on its frame it gave forth little sounds of click and shrinkage that told of the strain the tensioned rawhide made.
Quonab tried it that night as he sat by the fire softly singing: "Ho da ho-he da he." But the next day before sunrise he climbed the hill and sitting on the sun-up rock he hailed the Day God with the invocation, as he had not sung it since the day they left the great rock above the Asalnuk, and followed with the song: "Father, we thank thee; We have found the good hunting.
There is meat in the wigwam.".
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