“He meant that he wanted to walk ashore on the ice. So the surface of the lake froze, and he walked home. Some time after this, when the two friends were again play- ing together, the porcupine said, “You come now. It is my turn to carry you on my back.’’ Then the beaver got on the porcupine’s back, and the porcupine took him to the top of a very high tree, after which he came down and left him.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 37 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan