“There she saw four boys dancing and singing, and a little girl watching the place where the mother was supposed to be digging clams. The mother waited a moment and watched, and then coming in she caught them in human form, and scolded them, saying that they ought to have had that form in the first place, for on their account she had been brought to shame before the people. At this the children sat down and were ashamed.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 65 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan