“Henceforth the winters will be about this length, but they will be variable. I will tell you of the gaxewisa month, when people will meet together and talk. At that time of the year people will ask questions (or propound riddles), and others will answer. If the riddle is answered correctly, then the person who propounded it must answer, “Fool-hen.’’ Raven chose this word because the fool-hen has a shorter beak than any other game- bird.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 11 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan