many of the other pictures were much too beautiful to begin with, especially before lunch, but as they were drawn over and over again on birch-bark, they became plainer and easier, till at last even tegumai said he could find no fault with them. they turned the hissy-snake the other way round for the z-sound, to show it was hissing backwards in a soft and gentle way (23); and they just made a twiddle for e, because it came into the pictures so often (24); and they drew pictures of the sacred beaver of the tegumais for the b-sound (25, 26, 27, 28); and because it was a nasty, nosy noise, they just drew noses for the n-sound, till they were tired (29); and they drew a picture of the big lake-pike’s mouth for the greedy ga-sound (30); and they drew the pike’s mouth again with a spear behind it for the scratchy, hurty ka-sound (31); and they drew pictures of a little bit of the winding wagai river for the nice windy-windy wa-sound (32, 33); and so on and so forth and so following till they had done and drawn all the sound-pictures that they wanted, and there was the alphabet, all complete.