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Updated: June 28, 2025
The ice must have rotted more than we guessed, for halfway across, Ongyatasse dropped through it like a pebble into a pot-hole. Next to him was Tiakens, grandson of Well-Praised, and between me and Tiakens a new boy from Painted Turtle.
"'Any time these five days you could have gone forward with the answer had it been important for you to get back to Cool Waters! "That was true. I could have left Ongyatasse and gone on alone, but nothing that had happened so far had made us think that we must get back quickly.
"That was not a true word, for the Lenni-Lenape do not crop the head until they go on the war-path, and White Quiver's hair lay along his shoulders, well oiled, with bright bits of shell tied in it, glittering as he walked. Also it is the rule of the Tellings that one must feed the stranger. But me, I was never a Name-Seeker. I was happy to stand fourth from Ongyatasse in the order of our running.
"'There are many horned heads in the forest this season, he said at last. "'Very many, said Ongyatasse; 'they come into the fields and eat up the harvest. "'In that case, said the Head Man, 'what should a man do? "'What can he do but let fly at them with a broad arrow? said Ongyatasse, putting up his own arrow, as a man puts up his work when it is finished.
"'Ongyatasse, you have given away your luck! cried Tiakens, whose head was a little light with the blow the ice-cake had given him.
"'Now I shall owe you my name as well as my life, said Ongyatasse, for if his knee had not been properly attended, that would have been the end of his running. "'Then your new name would be Well-Friended, said the Lenape, and he made a very good story of how I had come tumbling down on both of them. We laughed, but Ongyatasse had another question.
Of course, they could have had no possible excuse for stopping us, being at peace, but I began to put this together with things Ongyatasse had told me, particularly the reason why no older man than he could be spared from Three Towns. He said the men were rebuilding the stockade and getting in the harvest.
At Fish River the Tallegewi fell in hundreds ... there is a mound there ... at Bent Bar the Lenni-Lenape held the ford, keeping a passage open for flying bands that were pressed up from the south by the Painted Turtles. Ongyatasse went about getting together his old band from the Three Towns, fretting because we were not allowed to take the front of the battle.
I knew enough to catch him by the ankles even then I couldn't help wondering if the scar was still there, for we knew instantly who he was and somebody caught my feet, spreading our weight as much as possible. Over the bridge we made, Ongyatasse and Tiakens, who had come to himself by this time, crawled out on firm ice.
"We had seen both boys disappear for an instant as the ice gave under them, but even when we saw them come to the surface, with Ongyatasse holding Tiakens by the hair, we hardly grasped what had happened. The edge of the ice-cake had taken Tiakens under the chin and he was unconscious.
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