So going as before to the pond in the
mountains, among the rocks and behind the grapevines, he, by the same
device, captured yet another fairy, whom, taking home, he wedded.
Yet Team took this sadly to heart, and willed that Marten should give
him this last spouse, to which Marten would in nowise agree. Truly,
Team argued earnestly that as he had no wife, and no wisdom wherewith
to win one, of course he must have one of Marten's, or that Marten
should go and get him one. To which Marten replied that Moose might
skin his own skunks, and fish for his own minnows, and also paddle his
own canoe to the devil, if it so pleased him,--all of these being
approved Indian sayings of high and racy antiquity. Whereupon Team
sought to persuade Marten with a club, who gave a soft answer by
shooting a flint-headed arrow through Team's scalp-lock; and this
friendship they continued for many days, passing their evenings in
manufacturing missiles, and the mornings in sending them one at the
other.
Now the fairy water-wives, not being accustomed to this kind of intimacy,
sought to subtract themselves from it. So one morning, when Marten and
Team were most industriously endeavoring to effect mutual murder, the
two wives of the former fled afar to seek fortune, and succeeded therein
to perfection. And it came to pass when the sun had set and the voice of
Bumole, the Spirit of Night, was heard afar on high, and Nibauchset (P.
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