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Another
time
I
found
a
dry
;
gourd
,
inside
of
which
the
seeds
rattled
.
I
had
fun
with
it
for
a
while
.
But
it
was
a
play
thing
,
nothing
more
.
And
yet
,
it
was
not
long
after
this
that
the
using
of
gourds
for
storing
water
became
the
general
practice
of
the
horde
.
But
I
was
not
the
inventor
.
The
honor
was
due
to
old
Marrow
-
Bone
,
and
it
is
fair
to
assume
that
it
was
the
necessity
of
his
great
age
that
brought
about
the
innovation
.
At
any
rate
,
the
first
member
of
the
horde
to
use
gourds
was
Marrow
-
Bone
.
He
kept
a
supply
of
drinking
-
water
in
his
cave
,
which
cave
belonged
to
his
son
,
the
Hairless
One
,
who
permitted
him
to
occupy
a
corner
of
it
.
We
used
to
see
Marrow
-
Bone
filling
his
gourd
at
the
drinking
-
place
and
carrying
it
carefully
up
to
his
cave
.
Imitation
was
strong
in
the
Folk
,
and
first
one
,
and
then
another
and
another
,
procured
a
gourd
and
used
it
in
similar
fashion
,
until
it
was
a
general
practice
with
all
of
us
so
to
store
water
.
Sometimes
old
Marrow
-
Bone
had
sick
spells
and
was
unable
to
leave
the
cave
.
Then
it
was
that
the
Hairless
One
filled
the
gourd
for
him
.
A
little
later
,
the
Hairless
One
deputed
the
task
to
Long
-
Lip
,
his
son
.
And
after
that
,
even
when
Marrow
-
Bone
was
well
again
,
Long
-
Lip
continued
carrying
water
for
him
.
By
and
by
,
except
on
unusual
occasions
,
the
men
never
carried
any
water
at
all
,
leaving
the
task
to
the
women
and
larger
children
.
Lop
-
Ear
and
I
were
independent
.
We
carried
water
only
for
ourselves
,
and
we
often
mocked
the
young
water
-
carriers
when
they
were
called
away
from
play
to
fill
the
gourds
.
Progress
was
slow
with
us
.
We
played
through
life
,
even
the
adults
,
much
in
the
same
way
that
children
play
,
and
we
played
as
none
of
the
other
animals
played
.
What
little
we
learned
,
was
usually
in
the
course
of
play
,
and
was
due
to
our
curiosity
and
keenness
of
appreciation
.
For
that
matter
,
the
one
big
invention
of
the
horde
,
during
the
time
I
lived
with
it
,
was
the
use
of
gourds
.
At
first
we
stored
only
water
in
the
gourds
—
in
imitation
of
old
Marrow
-
Bone
.
But
one
day
some
one
of
the
women
—
I
do
not
know
which
one
—
filled
a
gourd
with
black
-
berries
and
carried
it
to
her
cave
.
In
no
time
all
the
women
were
carrying
berries
and
nuts
and
roots
in
the
gourds
.
The
idea
,
once
started
,
had
to
go
on
.
Another
evolution
of
the
carrying
-
receptacle
was
due
to
the
women
.
Without
doubt
,
some
woman
’
s
gourd
was
too
small
,
or
else
she
had
forgotten
her
gourd
;
but
be
that
as
it
may
,
she
bent
two
great
leaves
together
,
pinning
the
seams
with
twigs
,
and
carried
home
a
bigger
quantity
of
berries
than
could
have
been
contained
in
the
largest
gourd
.
So
far
we
got
,
and
no
farther
,
in
the
transportation
of
supplies
during
the
years
I
lived
with
the
Folk
.
It
never
entered
anybody
’
s
head
to
weave
a
basket
out
of
willow
-
withes
.
Sometimes
the
men
and
women
tied
tough
vines
about
the
bundles
of
ferns
and
branches
that
they
carried
to
the
caves
to
sleep
upon
.
Possibly
in
ten
or
twenty
generations
we
might
have
worked
up
to
the
weaving
of
baskets
.
And
of
this
,
one
thing
is
sure
:
if
once
we
wove
withes
into
baskets
,
the
next
and
inevitable
step
would
have
been
the
weaving
of
cloth
.
Clothes
would
have
followed
,
and
with
covering
our
nakedness
would
have
come
modesty
.
Thus
was
momentum
gained
in
the
Younger
World
.
But
we
were
without
this
momentum
.
We
were
just
getting
started
,
and
we
could
not
go
far
in
a
single
generation
.
We
were
without
weapons
,
without
fire
,
and
in
the
raw
beginnings
of
speech
.
The
device
of
writing
lay
so
far
in
the
future
that
I
am
appalled
when
I
think
of
it
.
Even
I
was
once
on
the
verge
of
a
great
discovery
.
To
show
you
how
fortuitous
was
development
in
those
days
let
me
state
that
had
it
not
been
for
the
gluttony
of
Lop
-
Ear
I
might
have
brought
about
the
domestication
of
the
dog
.
And
this
was
something
that
the
Fire
People
who
lived
to
the
northeast
had
not
yet
achieved
.
They
were
without
dogs
;
this
I
knew
from
observation
.
But
let
me
tell
you
how
Lop
-
Ear
’
s
gluttony
possibly
set
back
our
social
development
many
generations
.
