“Then he saw a nice dish walk toward the fire all by itself. Txa’msem was scared and astonished to see these things. When the dried salmon was roasted and cut into pieces of the right length, the pieces went into the dish all by themselves. The dish laid itself down in front of Txa’msem, and he thought while he was eating, what strange things he was seeing now. When he had finished, a horn dipper came forward filled with water.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 56 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan