the way to play seven-up. He also inveigled the father of Tukeliketa
into the game. And one day he married the maiden, and the next day he
moved into the shaman's house, which was the finest in the village. The
fall of Neewak was complete, for he lost all his possessions, his walrus-
hide drums, his incantation tools--everything. And in the end he became
a hewer of wood and drawer of water at the beck and call of Moosu. And
Moosu--he set himself up as shaman, or high priest, and out of his
garbled Scripture created new gods and made incantation before strange
altars.

"And I was well pleased, for I thought it good that church and state go
hand in hand, and I had certain plans of my own concerning the state.
Events were shaping as I had foreseen. Good temper and smiling faces had
vanished from the village. The people were morose and sullen. There
were quarrels and fighting, and things were in an uproar night and day.
Moosu's cards were duplicated and the hunters fell to gambling among
themselves. Tummasook beat his wife horribly, and his mother's brother
objected and smote him with a tusk of walrus till he cried aloud in the
night and was shamed before the people. Also, amid such diversions no
hunting was done, and famine fell upon the land. The nights were long
and dark, and without meat no _hooch_ could be bought; so they murmured
against the chief. This I had played for, and when they were well and
hungry, I summoned the whole village, made a great harangue, posed as
patriarch, and fed the famishing. Moosu made harangue likewise, and
because of this and the thing I had done I was made chief. Moosu, who
had the ear of God and decreed his judgments, anointed me with whale
blubber, and right blubberly he did it, not understanding the ceremony.
And between us we interpreted to the people the new theory of the divine
right of kings. There was _hooch_ galore, and meat and feastings, and
they took kindly to the new order.