Now I think we have all of the deer we wish." As they could not take it with them for tanning, they cut the skin in half, and each wrapped in his piece a goodly portion of the body to be carried to the canoe.

Both were fastidious, wishing to get no stain upon their clothing, and, their task completed, they carefully washed their hands and knives at the edge of a brook.

Then as they lifted up their burdens the whining and growling in the bushes increased rapidly.
"They see that we are going," said Tayoga.

"The wolf even without the soul of a warrior in it knows much.

It is the wisest of all the animals, unless the fox be its equal.