ᏦᎢ ᏧᏙᏓᏆᏓ ᏑᎾᎴ ᎢᏣ ᎤᏤᏥᏍᏗ ᎦᏁᎳᏓ ᎤᎴ ᎶᏩᎤᏂᎱᏁ ᎤᏛᎾ ᏧᏂᏍᏗ ᏚᏂᏒᎾᏔᏁ ᎪᏛ ᎦᏚᎢᏣ, ᏧᏂᏍᏗ ᏐᏉ ᎠᎵᏍᏔᎩᏛ.
Before sunrise three mornings earlier, Lowan had killed a possum with a pouchful of babies. They stewed her and roasted the little ones on sharpened sticks over the fire, and the little ones were hardly a mouthful apiece.