14/47 He wants our food because he's hungry--he's always hungry--and he would try to eat us too if he were not so much afraid of us." "Tayoga, one needs only a single glance to tell that this animal you're talking about is a wolf." "It is so, Dagaeoga. A very hungry and a very angry wolf. He is cunning, but he does not know everything. He thinks we do not see him, that we do not know he is there and that maybe, after awhile, when we go to sleep, he can slip up and steal our food, or perhaps he can bring many of his brothers, and they can eat us before we awake. Now, I will tell him in a language he can understand that it's time for him to go away." He picked up a heavy stick and threw it with all his might into the bushes on their right. |