“His attendants laid out the body of the chief’s child, took out the intestines, burned them at the rear of the chief’s house, and placed. the body on the bed which his father had built for his son. The chief and the chieftainess wailed every morning under the corpse of their dead son, and his tribe cried with them. They did so every day after the young man’s death. One morning before daylight came, the chieftainess went again to wail.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 7 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan