Wade then gave _Wunchee_ ( ?) his pen-knife, and an old cuff-button he happened to have in his pocket.

They accepted these presents as modest as you please; but it did seem a little droll to see them immediately fall to licking them all over with their tongues.

They did not seem to act as if they considered the gifts fairly their own till they had _licked_ them.

We had not observed this practice among those who boarded us at the Middle Savage Isles; but with these the custom seemed a universal one among the women.

Even if the gift were a rusty nail, they would lick it all the same.