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"Ah, ah, Curly here," Sconda replied. "When did he come?" "To-day. He was caught as he came through the pass. He shot, but missed." "Where is he now?" "At Taku's." Weston placed his hand to his forehead in perplexity. "This is certainly a great home-coming," he muttered. "Trouble everywhere, with white men entering the place by lake and pass. Look, Sconda, bring Curly here in one hour. See?"
But because Opata wanted the Stick of Long-Hand, he thought any stick of Taku's must be the one he wanted. And what Opata thought, the rest of the tribe thought also. So they rose up by clans and villages and followed after the Sign. That was how we came to the Squidgy Islands. There were willows there and young alders and bare knuckles of rock holding up the land.
"So I took him back as far as the Arch Rock which springs high over the trail by which the men of Taku's village went out to the hunting. There was a cleft under the wing of the Arch, close to the cliff, and every man going out to the hunt threw a dart at it, as an omen.
'Now we shall have the less to carry. But the mother of Taku-Wakin made a terrible outcry. In the place where her hut had been she had found the Talking Stick of Taku's father, trampled to splinters. "She had had it all the time hidden in her bundle. Long-Hand had told her it was Magic Medicine and she must never let any one have it.
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