mossy tree stump than anyone else except rain cloud. and he stayed longer than anyone on the back of a wildly kicking and running horse.
but on the other tests, little tree leaf did not do very well. he was not so tall or so strong as the other boys of the tribe. in the wrestling test,boy-who-eats-much threw him to the ground and sat on him holding him down while everybody laughed. in the pretend fight, which was almost a real fight-with real spears and stone battle axes-little tree leaf was knocked down, cut and bleeding, beaten by wolf cub. in the running test, three other boys ran farther and many 