““I am sure I saw it before you,” said the first speaker again, “and, therefore, it is mine.” “Well, you may have the box, but its contents shall belong to me,” replied the other. They picked up the box, and began to carry it, but finding it somewhat heavy and being anxious to know what it con- tained, they stopped to untie it. “If there are many things in there, I shall have some of them,”’ said the first speaker, who rued her bargain.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 40 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan