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THE BIG CANOE

it would always be the pipe that Thaimshim ha
tossed away in his anger and pain, long, long before.
It would always be the pipe that Thaimshim had
brought from that flat, treeless land across the moun
tains in those days when he dwelt in the land of
the Tsimshians and watched carefully over all
things.

Teka was sitting beside the Foolish One, numb
with cold and utterly exhausted, when the Haida
chief and his men, guided by Kilko, clambered up
over the Crab Rock and found him there. He was
still singing softly to old Shim, who lay back against
the rocks with a smile upon his face—to poor old >
Shim, who had passed smiling to another world, with
Teka’s sweet music ringing in his ears.