She lives apart from her husband also for two months if she has borne a boy, and for three if she has given birth to a girl.
Many of the Cree hunters are careful to prevent a woman from partaking of the head of a moose-deer, lest it should spoil their future hunts; and for the same reason they avoid bringing it to a fort, fearing lest the white people should give the bones to the dogs.
The games or sports of the Crees are various.

One termed the game of the mitten, is played with four balls, three of which are plain, and one marked.

These being hid under as many mittens, the opposite party is required to fix on that which is marked.

He gives or receives a feather according as he guesses right or wrong.

When the feathers which are ten in number, have all passed into one hand, a new division is made; but when one of the parties obtains possession of them thrice, he seizes on the stakes.
The game of Platter is more intricate, and is played with the claws of a bear, or some other animal, marked with various lines and characters.
These dice, which are eight in number, and cut flat at their large end, are shook together in a wooden dish, tossed into the air and caught again.