For many days, tied by the stick, Jerry remained Lamai's prisoner.

It was not a happy time, for the house of Lumai was a house of perpetual bickering and quarrelling.

Lamai fought pitched battles with his brothers and sisters for teasing Jerry, and these battles invariably culminated in Lenerengo taking a hand and impartially punishing all her progeny.
After that, as a matter of course and on general principles, she would have it out with Lumai, whose soft voice always was for quiet and repose, and who always, at the end of a tongue-lashing, took himself off to the canoe house for a couple of days.

Here, Lenerengo was helpless.

Into the canoe house of the stags no Mary might venture.