Once one grain of rice covered well with water and cooked afforded a good meal for several persons. At that time Great-Spirit, the ruler of the country, had a wife from the people. One day her numerous relations come to visit her. She decides that one grain in the pot will not suffice for so many, therefore she puts in plenty rice. Great-Spirit sees the pot boiling, and is angry, and sees it is well that her family is at hand, otherwise she would get such a beating for breaking the law of the country, that none would ever recognize her again. One grain would have sufficed to feed all the people. "But since you have broken my law, hereafter, to get enough to eat, everybody must put plenty rice in the pot."