" And
Lox thanked him as if he were doing him a favor, and accepted the best
of their dried meat, and took the highest place by their fire, and
smoked the chief's choicest _tomawe_ out of his best pipe, and all
that with such vast condescension that the wolves grinned with delight.
And when they laid them down to sleep he that was the eldest, or the
sogmo, bade the younger cover their guest Lox over very carefully. Now
the tail of the wolf has broad-spreading, shaggy hair, and Lox, being
sleepy, really thought it was a fur blanket that they spread, and
though the night was cold enough to crack the rocks he threw the
covering off; twice he did this, and the chief who looked after him,
with all the rest, admired him greatly because he cared so little for
the cold or for their care.
And having eaten after they arose, when in the morning they would wend
away, the Wolf Chief said unto Lox, "Uncle, thou hast yet three days'
hard travel before thee in a land where there is neither home, house,
nor hearth, and it will be ill camping without a fire. Now I have a
most approved and excellent charm, or spell, by which I can give thee
three fires, but no more; yet will they suffice, one for each night,
until thou gettest to thy journey's end. And this is the manner thereof:
that thou shalt take unto thee dry wood, even such as men commonly burn,
and thou shalt put them together, even as boys build little wigwams for
sport, and then thou shalt jump over it.
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