ABSTRACT
The Owl and his wife heard the news of the feast which His Lordship the Eagle was giving, and they put on all their finery and went. They wore across their shoulders shell moneys a fathom long and each of ten strings, and round their necks shell moneys of short lengths with pendants, and fillets of shell money round their foreheads, and porpoise teeth pendants in their ears, two hundred in each, and shell rings on their arms, and mats of red, white, and black beads on their wrists and ankles, and their hair was combed till it was like strands of fibre newly teased out. (The song of the Owls preparatory to their going is given under Lullabies.)
