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132 And the heart of the hairy Mammoth, thou sayest, they do not see,

Yet they save it whole from the beaches and broil the best for thee.

'And now do they press to thy pictures, with opened mouth and eye,

And a little gift in the doorway, and the praise no gift can buy:

But—sure they have doubted thy pictures, and that is a grievous stain—

Son that can see so clearly, return them their gifts again!'

And Ung looked down at his deerskins—their broad shell-tasselled bands—

And Ung drew downward his mitten and looked at his naked hands;

And he gloved himself and departed, and he heard his father, behind:

'Son that can see so clearly, rejoice that thy tribe is blind!'