Manitou has willed that it should be so, because it is the life fluid of his creatures.

It was a wild goose that the Great Bear shot." "And why not a wild duck ?" "Because here are two of the feathers, and even Dagaeoga knows they are the feathers of a goose and not of a duck.

It was, too, the fattest goose in the flock." "Which you have no possible way of knowing, Tayoga." "But I do, Dagaeoga.

It was the fattest goose of the flock, because the fattest goose of the flock was the one that so wise and skillful a hunter as the Great Bear would, as a matter of course, select and kill.

Learn, O, Dagaeoga, to trail with your mind as well as with your eye, and ear.