“Bluejay was at the bottom of this, and kept saying that fat was too good for Grouse; and he poked fun at him and sneered at him whenever he was about. Grouse never said a word, but took what was given him with- out complaining. -One day Grouse made a wooden seal, carving it out of cedar, and burning it-until it was black. Then he talked to the seal, and told it what it was to do; and it dived down into the water and went out to sea.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 41 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan