“‘Remain there and J will visit you again soon, and bring you some food.”’ He now returned home, and found that the wind had all died away; there was a dead calm, so that before long they were supplied with a great abundance of food, as the eels were plenty and easily taken. But there can be too much even of a good thing. Calm weather continued for a succession of days, caus- ing the salt water to be covered with a sort of scum.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 20 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan