It is doubtful if they liked the cooked meat half so well as they did the raw, reeking flesh of the bear.
By way of making up for the candy failure, we gave them each two common tenpenny nails, and two sticks of hardwood the size we burned in the stove.

With these presents they seemed very well pleased, particularly with the wood.

But, on finding we were disposed to give, the most of them were not at all modest about asking for more.

A general cry of "_Pillitay_" ("Give me something") arose.

We gave them another stick of wood all round; at which their cries were redoubled.
In short, they treated us very much as some earnest Christians do the Lord,--asked for everything they could think of.