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196 LavcHING Boy 2 A NINA AAA AAA AAA A rr A A IAA a a EE: things. It was the woman's business; the chilé=t 3 were hers, after all. She would arrange it in cz { time, according to her wisdom. He drowsed z= was soothed by the tale of the familiar, stra=z= : adventures, the gate of the Clashing Rocks. t= 7 trail over Boiling Sands, Monster Eagle z-: | Monster Elk and Big God, lightning-arrows zzz | cloud-blankets. After supper the close air drugz=s . him; his eyes were nearly closed as he listenec == | the last of the myth. 1 The snowflakes, drifting through the smci= | hole, fell into the fire with little hisses. The ew=r { voice went on, telling the end. ‘Slayer of Enemy Gods came to the Hurz= | People, they say... . But it was not his dream, there was noth'=g portentous about this voice. Slim Girl had sl: | the Hunger People. He smiled and listens: | cradled in drowsiness, distantly conscious of z § louse biting him, and comforting himself with t= | thought that to-morrow all that would be z:- | tended to, to-morrow they would be home aga'= | These poor people, they could not know. FE: | half-opened his eyes, seeing his wife's thoughtfl | delicate face, and said, as sleepy people will, muz § louder than he realized, ‘Hasché Lto'i!’ i ‘What was that, Grandfather?’ asked the maz |