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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: How The Raven Died + 1902, From "Wolfville Nights" + +Author: Alfred Henry Lewis + +Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23173] +Last Updated: February 4, 2013 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW THE RAVEN DIED *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <div style="height: 8em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> + <h1> + HOW THE RAVEN DIED + </h1> + <h2> + By Alfred Henry Lewis + </h2> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h4> + From "Wolfville Nights," <br /> <br /> Copyright, 1902, by Frederick A. + Stokes Company + </h4> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + "Which 'f you-all is out to hear of Injuns, son," observed the Old + Cattleman, doubtfully, "the best I can do is shet my eyes an' push along + regyardless, like a cayouse in a storm of snow. But I don't guarantee no + facts; none whatever; I never does bend myse'f to severe study of savages, + an' what notions I packs concernin' 'em is the casual frootes of what I + accidental hears an' what I sees. It's only now an' then, as I observes + former, that Injuns invades Wolfville; an' when they does, we-all scowls + 'em outen camp-sort o' makes a sour front, so as to break 'em early of + habits of visitin' us. We shore don't hone none to have 'em hankerin' + 'round. + </p> + <p> + "Nacherally, I makes no doubt that if you goes clost to Injuns an' studies + their little game you finds some of 'em good an' some bad, some gaudy an' + some sedate, some cur'ous an' some indifferent, same as you finds among + shore-enough folks. It's so with mules an' broncos; wherefore, then, may + not these differences exist among Injuns? Come squar' to the turn, you-all + finds white folks separated the same. Some gents follows off one wagon + track an' some another; some even makes a new trail. + </p> + <p> + "Speakin' of what's opposite in folks, I one time an' ag'in sees two white + chiefs of scouts who frequent comes pirootin' into Wolfville from the + Fort. Each has mebby a score of Injuns at his heels who pertains to him + personal. One of these scout chiefs is all buckskins, fringes, beads an' + feathers from y'ears to hocks, while t'other goes garbed in a stiff hat + with a little jim-crow rim—one of them kind you deenom'nates as a + darby—an' a diag'nal overcoat; one chief looks like a dime novel on + a spree an' t'other as much like the far East as he saveys how. An' yet, + son, this voylent person in buckskins is a Second Lootenant-a mere boy, he + is-from West P'int; while that outcast in the reedic'lous hat is foaled on + the plains an' never does go that clost to the risin' sun as to glimpse + the Old Missouri. The last form of maverick bursts frequent into Western + bloom; it's their ambition, that a-way, to deloode you into deemin' 'em as + fresh from the States as one of them tomatter airtights. + </p> + <p> + "Thar's old gent Jeffords; he's that sort. Old Jeffords lives for long + with the Apaches; he's found among 'em when Gen'ral Crook-the old 'Gray + Fox'-an' civilization and Gatlin' guns comes into Arizona arm in arm. I + used to note old Jeffords hibernatin' about the Oriental over in Tucson, I + shore reckons he's procrastinatin' about thar yet, if the Great Sperit + ain't done called him in. As I says, old Jeffords is that long among the + Apaches back in Cochise's time that the mem'ry of man don't run none to + the contrary. An' yet no gent ever sees old Jeffords wearin' anything more + savage than a long-tail black surtoot an' one of them stove-pipe hats. Is + Jeffords dangerous? No, you-all couldn't call him a distinct peril; still, + folks who goes devotin' themse'fs to stirrin' Jeffords up jest to see if + he's alive gets disastrous action. He has long gray ha'r an' a tangled + white beard half-way down his front; an' with that old plug hat an' black + coat he's a sight to frighten children or sour milk! Still, Jeffords is + all right. As long as towerists an' other inquisitive people don't go + pesterin' Jeffords, he shore lets 'em alone. Otherwise, you might as well + be up the same saplin' with a cinnamon b'ar; which you'd most likely hear + something drop a lot. + </p> + <p> + "For myse'f, I likes old Jeffords, an' considers him a pleasin' conundrum. + About tenth drink time he'd take a cha'r an' go camp by himse'f in a far + corner, an' thar he'd warble hymns. Many a time as I files away my + nosepaint in the Oriental have I been regaled with + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "'Jesus, Lover of my soul, + Let me to Thy bosom fly, + While the nearer waters roll, + While the tempest still is high,' +</pre> + <p> + as emanatin' from Jeffords where he's r'ared back conductin' some personal + services. Folks never goes buttin' in interferin' with these concerts; + which it's cheaper to let him sing. + </p> + <p> + "Speakin' of Injuns, as I su'gests, I never does see overmuch of 'em in + Wolfville. An' my earlier experiences ain't thronged with 'em neither, + though while I'm workin' cattle along the Red River I does carom on Injuns + more or less. Thar's one old hostile I recalls speshul; he's a fool Injun + called Black Feather-Choctaw, he is. This Black Feather's weakness is + fire-water; he thinks more of it than some folks does of children. + </p> + <p> + "Black Feather used to cross over to where Dick Stocton maintains a store + an' licker house on the Upper Hawgthief. Of course, no gent sells these + Injuns licker. It's ag'in the law; an' onless you-all is onusual eager to + make a trip to Fort Smith with a marshal ridin' herd on you doorin' said + visit, impartin' of nosepaint to aborigines is a good thing not to do. But + Black Feather, he'd come over to Dick Stocton's an' linger 'round the + bar'ls of Valley Tan, an' take a chance on stealin' a snifter or two while + Stocton's busy. + </p> + <p> + "At last Stocton gets tired an' allows he'll lay for Black Feather. This + yere Stocton is a mighty reckless sport; he ain't carin' much whatever he + does do; he hates Injuns an' shotguns, an' loves licker, seven-up, an' sin + in any form; them's Stocton's prime characteristics. An' he gets mighty + weary of the whiskey-thievin' Black Feather, an' lays for him. + </p> + <p> + "One evenin' this aggravatin' Black Feather crosses over an' takes to + ha'ntin' about Dick Stocton's licker room, as is his wont. It looks like + Black Feather has already been buyin' whiskey of one of them boot-laig + parties who takes every chance an' goes among the Injuns an' sells 'em + nosepaint on the sly. 'Fore ever he shows up on the Upper Hawgthief that + time, this Black Feather gets nosepaint some'ers an puts a whole quart of + it away in the shade; an' he shore exhibits symptoms. Which for one thing + he feels about four stories tall! + </p> + <p> + "Stocton sets a trap for Black Feather. He fills up the tin cup into which + he draws that Valley Tan with coal-oil—karoseen you-all calls it—an' + leaves it, temptin' like, settin' on top a whiskey bar'l. Shore! it's the + first thing Black Feather notes. He sees his chance an' grabs an' downs + the karoseen; an' Stocton sort o' startin' for him, this Black Feather + gulps her down plump swift. The next second he cuts loose the yell of that + year, burns up about ten acres of land, and starts for Red River. No, I + don't know whether the karoseen hurts him none or not; but he certainly + goes squatterin' across the old Red River like a wounded wild-duck, an' he + never does come back no more. + </p> + <p> + "But, son, as you sees, I don't know nothin' speshul or much touchin' + Injuns, an' if I'm to dodge the disgrace of ramblin' along in this + desultory way, I might better shift to a tale I hears Sioux Sam relate to + Doc Peets one time in the Red Light. This Sam is a Sioux, an' a mighty + decent buck, considerin' he's Injun; Sam is servin' the Great Father as a + scout with the diag'nal-coat, darby-hat sharp I mentions. Peets gives this + saddle-tinted longhorn a four-bit piece, an' he tells this yarn. It sounds + plenty-childish, but you oughter ba'r in mind that savages' mental ain't + no bigger nor older than ten-year-old young ones among the palefaces. + </p> + <p> + "'This is the old story my mother tells me,' says Sioux Sam, 'to show me + the evils of curiosity. "The Great Sperit allows to every one the right to + ask only so many questions," says my mother, "an' when they ask one more + than is their right, they die."' + </p> + <p> + "'This is the story of the fate of <i>Kaw-kaw-chee</i>, the Raven, a Sioux + chief who died long ago exactly as my mother told me. The Raven died + because he asked too many questions an' was too cur'ous. It began when + Sublette, who was a trader, came up the <i>Mitchi-zoor-rah</i>, the + Big-Muddy, an' was robbed by the Raven's people. Sublette was mad at this, + an' said next time he would bring the Sioux a present so they would not + rob him. So he brought a little cask of firewater an' left it on the bank + of the Big-Muddy. Then Sublette went away, an' twenty of the Raven's young + men found the little cask. An' they were greedy an' did not tell the camp; + they drank the fire-water where it was found. + </p> + <p> + "'The Raven missed his twenty young men an' when he went to spy for them, + behold! they were dead, with their teeth locked tight an' their faces an' + bodies writhen an' twisted as the whirlwind twists the cottonwoods. Then + the Raven thought an' thought; an' he got very cur'ous to know why his + young men died so writhen an' twisted. The fire-water had a whirlwind in + it, an' the Raven was eager to hear. So he sent for Sublette. + </p> + <p> + "'Then the Raven an' Sublette had a big talk. They agreed not to hurt each + other; an' Sublette was to come an' go an' trade with the Sioux; an' they + would never rob him. + </p> + <p> + "'At this, Sublette gave the Raven some of the whirlwind that so killed + an' twisted the twenty young men. It was a powder, white; an' it had no + smell. Sublette said its taste was bitter; but the Raven must not taste it + or it would lock up his teeth an' twist an' kill him. For to swallow the + white powder loosed the whirlwind on the man's heart an' it bent him an' + twisted him like the storms among the willows. + </p> + <p> + "'But the Raven could give the powder to others. So the Raven gave it in + some deer's meat to his two squaws; an' they were twisted till they died; + an' when they would speak they couldn't, for their teeth were held tight + together an' no words came out of their mouths—only a great foam. + Then the Raven gave it to others that he did not love; they were twisted + an' died. At last there was no more of the powder of the whirlwind; the + Raven must wait till Sublette came up the Big-Muddy again an' brought him + more. + </p> + <p> + "'There was a man, the Gray Elk, who was of the Raven's people. The Gray + Elk was a <i>Choo-ayk-eed</i>, a great prophet. And the Gray Elk had a + wife; she was wise an' beautiful, an' her name was Squaw-who-has-dreams. + But the Gray Elk called her <i>Kee-nee-moo-sha</i>, the Sweetheart. + </p> + <p> + "'While the Raven waited for Sublette to bring him more powder of the + whirlwind, a star with a long tail came into the sky. This star with the + tail made the Raven heap cur'ous. He asked Gray Elk to tell him about it, + for he was a prophet. The Raven asked many questions; they fell from him + like leaves from a tree in the month of the first ice. So the Gray Elk + called <i>Chee-bee</i>, the Spirit; an' the Spirit told the Gray Elk. Then + the Gray Elk told the Raven. + </p> + <p> + "'It was not a tail, it was blood—star blood; an' the star had been + bit an' was wounded, but would get well. The Sun was the father of the + stars, an' the Moon was their mother. The Sun, <i>Gheezis</i>, tried ever + to pursue an' capture an' eat his children, the stars. So the stars all + ran an' hid when the Sun was about. But the stars loved their mother who + was good an' never hurt them; an' when the Sun went to sleep at night an' + <i>Coush-ee-wan</i>, the Darkness, shut his eyes, the Moon an' her + children came together to see each other. But the star that bled had been + caught by the Sun; it got out of his mouth, but was wounded. Now it was + frightened, so it always kept its face to where the Sun was sleeping over + in the west. The bleeding star, <i>Sch-coo-dah</i>, would get well an' its + wound would heal. + </p> + <p> + "'Then the Raven wanted to know how the Gray Elk knew all this. An' the + Gray Elk had the Raven into the medicine lodge that night; an' the Raven + heard the spirits come about an' heard their voices; but he could not + understand. Also, the Raven saw a wolf all fire, with wings like the eagle + which flew overhead. Also he heard the Thunder, <i>Boom-wa-wa</i>, talking + with the Gray Elk; but the Raven couldn't understand. The Gray Elk told + the Raven to draw his knife an' stab with it in the air outside the + medicine lodge. An' when he did, the Raven's blade an' hand came back + covered with blood. Still, the Raven was cur'ous an' kept askin' to be + told how the Gray Elk knew these things. An' the Gray Elk at last took the + Raven to the Great Bachelor Sycamore that lived alone, an' asked the Raven + if the Bachelor Sycamore was growing. An' the Raven said it was. Then Gray + Elk asked him how he knew it was growing. An' the Raven said he didn't + know. Then Gray Elk said he did not know how he knew about <i>Sch-coo-dah</i>, + the star that was bit. This made the Raven angry, for he was very cur'ous; + an' he thought the Gray Elk had two tongues. + </p> + <p> + "'Then it came the month of the first young grass an' Sublette was back + for furs. Also he brought many goods; an' he gave to the Raven more of the + powder of the whirlwind in a little box. At once the Raven made a feast of + ducks for the Gray Elk; an' he gave him of the whirlwind powder; an' at + once his teeth came together an' the Gray Elk was twisted till he died. + </p> + <p> + "'Now no one knew that the Raven had the powder of the whirlwind, so they + could not tell why all these people were twisted and went to the Great + Spirit. But the Squaw-who-has-dreams saw that it was the Raven who killed + her husband, the Gray Elk, in a vision. Then the Squaw-who-has-dreams went + into the mountains four days an' talked with <i>Moh-kwa</i>, the Bear who + is the wisest of the beasts. The Bear said it was the Raven who killed the + Gray Elk an' told the Squaw-who-has-dreams of the powder of the whirlwind. + </p> + <p> + "'Then the Bear an' the Squaw-who-has-dreams made a fire an' smoked an' + laid a plot. The Bear did not know where to find the powder of the + whirlwind which the Raven kept always in a secret place. But the Bear told + the Squaw-who-has-dreams that she should marry the Raven an' watch until + she found where the powder of the whirlwind was kept in its secret place; + an' then she was to give some to the Raven, an' he, too, would be twisted + an' die. There was a great danger, though; the Raven would, after the one + day when they were wedded, want to kill the Squaw-who-has-dreams. So to + protect her, the Bear told her she must begin to tell the Raven the moment + she was married to him the Story-that-never-ends. Then, because the Raven + was more cur'ous than even he was cruel, he would put off an' put off + giving the powder of the whirlwind to the Squaw-who-has-dreams, hoping to + hear the end of the Story-that-never-ends. Meanwhile the + Squaw-who-has-dreams was to watch the Raven until she found the powder of + the whirlwind in its secret place. + </p> + <p> + "'Then the wise Bear gave the Squaw-who-has-dreams a bowlful of words as + seed, so she might plant them an' raise a crop of talk to tell the + Story-that-never-ends. An' the Squaw-who-has-dreams planted the + seed-words, an' they grew an' grew, an' she gathered sixteen bundles of + talk an' brought them to her wigwam. After that she put beads in her hair, + an' dyed her lips red, an' rubbed red on her cheeks, an' put on a new + blanket; an' when the Raven saw her, he asked her to marry him. So they + were wedded; an' the Squaw-who-has-dreams went to the teepee of the Raven + an' was his wife. + </p> + <p> + "'But the Raven was old an' cunning like <i>Yah-mee-kee</i>, the Beaver, + an' he said, "He is not wise who keeps a squaw too long!" An' with that he + thought he would kill the Squaw-who-has-dreams the next day with the + powder of the whirlwind. But the Squaw-who-has-dreams first told the Raven + that she hated <i>When-dee-goo</i>, the Giant; an' that she should not + love the Raven until he had killed <i>When-dee-goo</i>. She knew the Giant + was too big an' strong for the Raven to kill with his lance, an' that he + must get his powder of the whirlwind; she would watch him an' learn its + secret place. The Raven said he would kill the Giant as the sun went down + next day. + </p> + <p> + "'Then the Squaw-who-has-dreams told the Raven the first of the + Story-that-never-ends an' used up one bundle of talk; an' when the story + ended for that night, the Squaw-who-has-dreams was saying: "An' so, out of + the lake that was red as the sun came a great fish that was green, with + yellow wings, an' it walked also with feet, an' it came up to me an' + said:" But then she would tell no more that night nor could the Raven, who + was crazy with cur'osity, prevail on her. "I must now sleep an' dream what + the green fish with the yellow wings said," was the reply of the + Squaw-who-has-dreams, an' she pretended to slumber. So the Raven, because + he was cur'ous, put off her death. + </p> + <p> + "'All night she watched, but the Raven did not go to the secret place + where he had hidden the powder of the whirlwind. Nor the next day, when + the sun went down, did the Raven kill the Giant. But the + Squaw-who-has-dreams took up again the Story-that-never-ends an' told what + the green fish with the yellow wings said; an' she used up the second + bundle of talk. When she ceased for that time, the Squaw-who-has-dreams + was saying: "An' as night fell, <i>Moh-kwa</i>, the Bear, called to me + from his canyon, an' said for me to come an' he would show me where the + treasure of fire-water was buried for you who are the Raven. So I went + into the canyon, an' <i>Moh-kwa</i>, the Bear, took me by the hand an' led + me to the treasure of fire-water which was greater an' richer than was + ever seen by any Sioux." + </p> + <p> + "'Then the Squaw-who-has-dreams would tell no more that night, while the + Raven eat his fingers with cur'osity. But he made up a new plan not to + twist the Squaw-who-has-dreams until she showed him the treasure of + fire-water an' told him the end of the Story-that-never-ends. On her part, + however, the Squaw-who-has-dreams, as she went to sleep, wept an' tore the + beads from her hair an' said the Raven did not love her, for he had not + killed the Giant, as he promised. She said she would tell no more of the + Story-that-never-ends until the Giant was dead; nor would she show to a + husband who did not love her the great treasure of fire-water which <i>Moh-kwa</i>, + the Bear, had found. At this, the Raven, who was hot to have the treasure + of fire-water an' whose ears rang with cur'osity to hear the end of the + Story-that-never-ends, saw that he must kill the Giant. Therefore, when + the Squaw-who-has-dreams had ceased to sob and revile him, an' was gone as + he thought asleep, the Raven went to his secret place where he kept the + powder of the whirlwind an' took a little and wrapped it in a leaf an' hid + the leaf in the braids of his long hair. Then the Raven went to sleep. + </p> + <p> + "'When the Raven was asleep the Squaw-who-has-dreams went also herself to + the secret place an' got also a little of the powder of the whirlwind. An' + the next morning she arose early an' gave the powder of the whirlwind to + the Raven on the roast buffalo, the <i>Pez-hee-kee</i>, which was his + food. + </p> + <p> + "'When the raven had eaten, the Squaw-who-has-dreams went out of the + teepee among the people an' called all the Sioux to come an' see the Raven + die. So the Sioux came gladly, an' the Raven was twisted an' writhen with + the powder of the whirlwind wrenching at his heart; an' his teeth were + tight like a trap; an' no words, but only foam, came from his mouth; an' + at last the Spirit, the <i>Chee-bee</i>, was twisted out of the Raven; an' + the Squaw-who-has-dreams was revenged for the death of the Gray Elk whom + she loved an' who always called her <i>Kee-nee-moo-sha</i>, the + Sweetheart, because it made her laugh. + </p> + <p> + "'When the Raven was dead, the Squaw-who-has-dreams went to the secret + place an' threw the powder of the whirlwind into the Big-Muddy; an' after + that she distributed her fourteen bundles of talk that were left among all + the Sioux so that everybody could tell how glad he felt because the Raven + was twisted and died. An' for a week there was nothing but happiness an' + big talk among the Sioux; an' <i>Moh-kwa</i>, the Bear, came laughing out + of his canyon with the wonder of listening to it; while the + Squaw-who-has-dreams now, when her revenge was done, went with <i>When-dee-goo</i>, + the Giant, to his teepee and became his squaw. So now everything was ended + save the Story-that-never-ends.' + </p> + <p> + "When Sioux Sam gets this far," concluded the Old Cattleman, "he says, + 'an' my mother's words at the end were: An' boys who ask too many + questions will die, as did the Raven whose cur'osity was even greater than + his cruelty." + </p> + <div style="height: 6em;"> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's How The Raven Died, by Alfred Henry Lewis + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW THE RAVEN DIED *** + +***** This file should be named 23173-h.htm or 23173-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/1/7/23173/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: How The Raven Died + 1902, From "Wolfville Nights" + +Author: Alfred Henry Lewis + +Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23173] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW THE RAVEN DIED *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +HOW THE RAVEN DIED + +By Alfred Henry Lewis + +From "Wolfville Nights," copyright, 1902, by Frederick A. Stokes Company + + +"Which 'f you-all is out to hear of Injuns, son," observed the Old +Cattleman, doubtfully, "the best I can do is shet my eyes an' push along +regyardless, like a cayouse in a storm of snow. But I don't guarantee +no facts; none whatever; I never does bend myse'f to severe study of +savages, an' what notions I packs concernin' 'em is the casual frootes +of what I accidental hears an' what I sees. It's only now an' then, as +I observes former, that Injuns invades Wolfville; an' when they does, +we-all scowls 'em outen camp-sort o' makes a sour front, so as to break +'em early of habits of visitin' us. We shore don't hone none to have 'em +hankerin' 'round. + +"Nacherally, I makes no doubt that if you goes clost to Injuns an' +studies their little game you finds some of 'em good an' some bad, some +gaudy an' some sedate, some cur'ous an' some indifferent, same as +you finds among shore-enough folks. It's so with mules an' broncos; +wherefore, then, may not these differences exist among Injuns? Come +squar' to the turn, you-all finds white folks separated the same. Some +gents follows off one wagon track an' some another; some even makes a +new trail. + +"Speakin' of what's opposite in folks, I one time an' ag'in sees two +white chiefs of scouts who frequent comes pirootin' into Wolfville from +the Fort. Each has mebby a score of Injuns at his heels who pertains to +him personal. One of these scout chiefs is all buckskins, fringes, beads +an' feathers from y'ears to hocks, while t'other goes garbed in a stiff +hat with a little jim-crow rim--one of them kind you deenom'nates as a +darby--an' a diag'nal overcoat; one chief looks like a dime novel on a +spree an' t'other as much like the far East as he saveys how. An' yet, +son, this voylent person in buckskins is a Second Lootenant-a mere boy, +he is-from West P'int; while that outcast in the reedic'lous hat is +foaled on the plains an' never does go that clost to the risin' sun as +to glimpse the Old Missouri. The last form of maverick bursts frequent +into Western bloom; it's their ambition, that a-way, to deloode you into +deemin' 'em as fresh from the States as one of them tomatter airtights. + +"Thar's old gent Jeffords; he's that sort. Old Jeffords lives for long +with the Apaches; he's found among 'em when Gen'ral Crook-the old 'Gray +Fox'-an' civilization and Gatlin' guns comes into Arizona arm in arm. I +used to note old Jeffords hibernatin' about the Oriental over in Tucson, +I shore reckons he's procrastinatin' about thar yet, if the Great Sperit +ain't done called him in. As I says, old Jeffords is that long among the +Apaches back in Cochise's time that the mem'ry of man don't run none to +the contrary. An' yet no gent ever sees old Jeffords wearin' anything +more savage than a long-tail black surtoot an' one of them stove-pipe +hats. Is Jeffords dangerous? No, you-all couldn't call him a distinct +peril; still, folks who goes devotin' themse'fs to stirrin' Jeffords up +jest to see if he's alive gets disastrous action. He has long gray ha'r +an' a tangled white beard half-way down his front; an' with that old +plug hat an' black coat he's a sight to frighten children or sour milk! +Still, Jeffords is all right. As long as towerists an' other inquisitive +people don't go pesterin' Jeffords, he shore lets 'em alone. Otherwise, +you might as well be up the same saplin' with a cinnamon b'ar; which +you'd most likely hear something drop a lot. + +"For myse'f, I likes old Jeffords, an' considers him a pleasin' +conundrum. About tenth drink time he'd take a cha'r an' go camp by +himse'f in a far corner, an' thar he'd warble hymns. Many a time as I +files away my nosepaint in the Oriental have I been regaled with + + "'Jesus, Lover of my soul, + Let me to Thy bosom fly, + While the nearer waters roll, + While the tempest still is high,' + +as emanatin' from Jeffords where he's r'ared back conductin' some +personal services. Folks never goes buttin' in interferin' with these +concerts; which it's cheaper to let him sing. + +"Speakin' of Injuns, as I su'gests, I never does see overmuch of 'em in +Wolfville. An' my earlier experiences ain't thronged with 'em neither, +though while I'm workin' cattle along the Red River I does carom on +Injuns more or less. Thar's one old hostile I recalls speshul; he's a +fool Injun called Black Feather-Choctaw, he is. This Black Feather's +weakness is fire-water; he thinks more of it than some folks does of +children. + +"Black Feather used to cross over to where Dick Stocton maintains a +store an' licker house on the Upper Hawgthief. Of course, no gent sells +these Injuns licker. It's ag'in the law; an' onless you-all is onusual +eager to make a trip to Fort Smith with a marshal ridin' herd on you +doorin' said visit, impartin' of nosepaint to aborigines is a good +thing not to do. But Black Feather, he'd come over to Dick Stocton's an' +linger 'round the bar'ls of Valley Tan, an' take a chance on stealin' a +snifter or two while Stocton's busy. + +"At last Stocton gets tired an' allows he'll lay for Black Feather. This +yere Stocton is a mighty reckless sport; he ain't carin' much whatever +he does do; he hates Injuns an' shotguns, an' loves licker, seven-up, +an' sin in any form; them's Stocton's prime characteristics. An' he gets +mighty weary of the whiskey-thievin' Black Feather, an' lays for him. + +"One evenin' this aggravatin' Black Feather crosses over an' takes to +ha'ntin' about Dick Stocton's licker room, as is his wont. It looks like +Black Feather has already been buyin' whiskey of one of them boot-laig +parties who takes every chance an' goes among the Injuns an' sells 'em +nosepaint on the sly. 'Fore ever he shows up on the Upper Hawgthief that +time, this Black Feather gets nosepaint some'ers an puts a whole quart +of it away in the shade; an' he shore exhibits symptoms. Which for one +thing he feels about four stories tall! + +"Stocton sets a trap for Black Feather. He fills up the tin cup into +which he draws that Valley Tan with coal-oil--karoseen you-all calls +it--an' leaves it, temptin' like, settin' on top a whiskey bar'l. Shore! +it's the first thing Black Feather notes. He sees his chance an' grabs +an' downs the karoseen; an' Stocton sort o' startin' for him, this Black +Feather gulps her down plump swift. The next second he cuts loose the +yell of that year, burns up about ten acres of land, and starts for Red +River. No, I don't know whether the karoseen hurts him none or not; but +he certainly goes squatterin' across the old Red River like a wounded +wild-duck, an' he never does come back no more. + +"But, son, as you sees, I don't know nothin' speshul or much touchin' +Injuns, an' if I'm to dodge the disgrace of ramblin' along in this +desultory way, I might better shift to a tale I hears Sioux Sam relate +to Doc Peets one time in the Red Light. This Sam is a Sioux, an' a +mighty decent buck, considerin' he's Injun; Sam is servin' the Great +Father as a scout with the diag'nal-coat, darby-hat sharp I mentions. +Peets gives this saddle-tinted longhorn a four-bit piece, an' he tells +this yarn. It sounds plenty-childish, but you oughter ba'r in mind that +savages' mental ain't no bigger nor older than ten-year-old young ones +among the palefaces. + +"'This is the old story my mother tells me,' says Sioux Sam, 'to show me +the evils of curiosity. "The Great Sperit allows to every one the right +to ask only so many questions," says my mother, "an' when they ask one +more than is their right, they die."' + +"'This is the story of the fate of _Kaw-kaw-chee_, the Raven, a Sioux +chief who died long ago exactly as my mother told me. The Raven died +because he asked too many questions an' was too cur'ous. It began +when Sublette, who was a trader, came up the _Mitchi-zoor-rah_, the +Big-Muddy, an' was robbed by the Raven's people. Sublette was mad at +this, an' said next time he would bring the Sioux a present so they +would not rob him. So he brought a little cask of firewater an' left it +on the bank of the Big-Muddy. Then Sublette went away, an' twenty of the +Raven's young men found the little cask. An' they were greedy an' did +not tell the camp; they drank the fire-water where it was found. + +"'The Raven missed his twenty young men an' when he went to spy for +them, behold! they were dead, with their teeth locked tight an' their +faces an' bodies writhen an' twisted as the whirlwind twists the +cottonwoods. Then the Raven thought an' thought; an' he got very cur'ous +to know why his young men died so writhen an' twisted. The fire-water +had a whirlwind in it, an' the Raven was eager to hear. So he sent for +Sublette. + +"'Then the Raven an' Sublette had a big talk. They agreed not to hurt +each other; an' Sublette was to come an' go an' trade with the Sioux; +an' they would never rob him. + +"'At this, Sublette gave the Raven some of the whirlwind that so killed +an' twisted the twenty young men. It was a powder, white; an' it had no +smell. Sublette said its taste was bitter; but the Raven must not taste +it or it would lock up his teeth an' twist an' kill him. For to swallow +the white powder loosed the whirlwind on the man's heart an' it bent him +an' twisted him like the storms among the willows. + +"'But the Raven could give the powder to others. So the Raven gave it +in some deer's meat to his two squaws; an' they were twisted till they +died; an' when they would speak they couldn't, for their teeth were held +tight together an' no words came out of their mouths--only a great foam. +Then the Raven gave it to others that he did not love; they were twisted +an' died. At last there was no more of the powder of the whirlwind; the +Raven must wait till Sublette came up the Big-Muddy again an' brought +him more. + +"'There was a man, the Gray Elk, who was of the Raven's people. The Gray +Elk was a _Choo-ayk-eed_, a great prophet. And the Gray Elk had a wife; +she was wise an' beautiful, an' her name was Squaw-who-has-dreams. But +the Gray Elk called her _Kee-nee-moo-sha_, the Sweetheart. + +"'While the Raven waited for Sublette to bring him more powder of the +whirlwind, a star with a long tail came into the sky. This star with the +tail made the Raven heap cur'ous. He asked Gray Elk to tell him about +it, for he was a prophet. The Raven asked many questions; they fell from +him like leaves from a tree in the month of the first ice. So the Gray +Elk called _Chee-bee_, the Spirit; an' the Spirit told the Gray Elk. +Then the Gray Elk told the Raven. + +"'It was not a tail, it was blood--star blood; an' the star had been +bit an' was wounded, but would get well. The Sun was the father of the +stars, an' the Moon was their mother. The Sun, _Gheezis_, tried ever to +pursue an' capture an' eat his children, the stars. So the stars all ran +an' hid when the Sun was about. But the stars loved their mother who was +good an' never hurt them; an' when the Sun went to sleep at night an' +_Coush-ee-wan_, the Darkness, shut his eyes, the Moon an' her children +came together to see each other. But the star that bled had been +caught by the Sun; it got out of his mouth, but was wounded. Now it was +frightened, so it always kept its face to where the Sun was sleeping +over in the west. The bleeding star, _Sch-coo-dah_, would get well an' +its wound would heal. + +"'Then the Raven wanted to know how the Gray Elk knew all this. An' the +Gray Elk had the Raven into the medicine lodge that night; an' the Raven +heard the spirits come about an' heard their voices; but he could not +understand. Also, the Raven saw a wolf all fire, with wings like the +eagle which flew overhead. Also he heard the Thunder, _Boom-wa-wa_, +talking with the Gray Elk; but the Raven couldn't understand. The Gray +Elk told the Raven to draw his knife an' stab with it in the air outside +the medicine lodge. An' when he did, the Raven's blade an' hand came +back covered with blood. Still, the Raven was cur'ous an' kept askin' +to be told how the Gray Elk knew these things. An' the Gray Elk at last +took the Raven to the Great Bachelor Sycamore that lived alone, an' +asked the Raven if the Bachelor Sycamore was growing. An' the Raven +said it was. Then Gray Elk asked him how he knew it was growing. An' +the Raven said he didn't know. Then Gray Elk said he did not know how +he knew about _Sch-coo-dah_, the star that was bit. This made the Raven +angry, for he was very cur'ous; an' he thought the Gray Elk had two +tongues. + +"'Then it came the month of the first young grass an' Sublette was back +for furs. Also he brought many goods; an' he gave to the Raven more of +the powder of the whirlwind in a little box. At once the Raven made +a feast of ducks for the Gray Elk; an' he gave him of the whirlwind +powder; an' at once his teeth came together an' the Gray Elk was twisted +till he died. + +"'Now no one knew that the Raven had the powder of the whirlwind, so +they could not tell why all these people were twisted and went to the +Great Spirit. But the Squaw-who-has-dreams saw that it was the Raven +who killed her husband, the Gray Elk, in a vision. Then the +Squaw-who-has-dreams went into the mountains four days an' talked with +_Moh-kwa_, the Bear who is the wisest of the beasts. The Bear said it +was the Raven who killed the Gray Elk an' told the Squaw-who-has-dreams +of the powder of the whirlwind. + +"'Then the Bear an' the Squaw-who-has-dreams made a fire an' smoked +an' laid a plot. The Bear did not know where to find the powder of the +whirlwind which the Raven kept always in a secret place. But the Bear +told the Squaw-who-has-dreams that she should marry the Raven an' watch +until she found where the powder of the whirlwind was kept in its secret +place; an' then she was to give some to the Raven, an' he, too, would +be twisted an' die. There was a great danger, though; the Raven +would, after the one day when they were wedded, want to kill the +Squaw-who-has-dreams. So to protect her, the Bear told her she +must begin to tell the Raven the moment she was married to him the +Story-that-never-ends. Then, because the Raven was more cur'ous than +even he was cruel, he would put off an' put off giving the powder of +the whirlwind to the Squaw-who-has-dreams, hoping to hear the end of the +Story-that-never-ends. Meanwhile the Squaw-who-has-dreams was to watch +the Raven until she found the powder of the whirlwind in its secret +place. + +"'Then the wise Bear gave the Squaw-who-has-dreams a bowlful of words +as seed, so she might plant them an' raise a crop of talk to tell +the Story-that-never-ends. An' the Squaw-who-has-dreams planted the +seed-words, an' they grew an' grew, an' she gathered sixteen bundles +of talk an' brought them to her wigwam. After that she put beads in her +hair, an' dyed her lips red, an' rubbed red on her cheeks, an' put on a +new blanket; an' when the Raven saw her, he asked her to marry him. So +they were wedded; an' the Squaw-who-has-dreams went to the teepee of the +Raven an' was his wife. + +"'But the Raven was old an' cunning like _Yah-mee-kee_, the Beaver, an' +he said, "He is not wise who keeps a squaw too long!" An' with that he +thought he would kill the Squaw-who-has-dreams the next day with the +powder of the whirlwind. But the Squaw-who-has-dreams first told the +Raven that she hated _When-dee-goo_, the Giant; an' that she should not +love the Raven until he had killed _When-dee-goo_. She knew the Giant +was too big an' strong for the Raven to kill with his lance, an' that he +must get his powder of the whirlwind; she would watch him an' learn its +secret place. The Raven said he would kill the Giant as the sun went +down next day. + +"'Then the Squaw-who-has-dreams told the Raven the first of the +Story-that-never-ends an' used up one bundle of talk; an' when the story +ended for that night, the Squaw-who-has-dreams was saying: "An' so, out +of the lake that was red as the sun came a great fish that was green, +with yellow wings, an' it walked also with feet, an' it came up to me +an' said:" But then she would tell no more that night nor could the +Raven, who was crazy with cur'osity, prevail on her. "I must now sleep +an' dream what the green fish with the yellow wings said," was the reply +of the Squaw-who-has-dreams, an' she pretended to slumber. So the Raven, +because he was cur'ous, put off her death. + +"'All night she watched, but the Raven did not go to the secret place +where he had hidden the powder of the whirlwind. Nor the next day, +when the sun went down, did the Raven kill the Giant. But the +Squaw-who-has-dreams took up again the Story-that-never-ends an' told +what the green fish with the yellow wings said; an' she used up +the second bundle of talk. When she ceased for that time, the +Squaw-who-has-dreams was saying: "An' as night fell, _Moh-kwa_, the +Bear, called to me from his canyon, an' said for me to come an' he would +show me where the treasure of fire-water was buried for you who are the +Raven. So I went into the canyon, an' _Moh-kwa_, the Bear, took me by +the hand an' led me to the treasure of fire-water which was greater an' +richer than was ever seen by any Sioux." + +"'Then the Squaw-who-has-dreams would tell no more that night, while the +Raven eat his fingers with cur'osity. But he made up a new plan not +to twist the Squaw-who-has-dreams until she showed him the treasure of +fire-water an' told him the end of the Story-that-never-ends. On her +part, however, the Squaw-who-has-dreams, as she went to sleep, wept an' +tore the beads from her hair an' said the Raven did not love her, for +he had not killed the Giant, as he promised. She said she would tell no +more of the Story-that-never-ends until the Giant was dead; nor would +she show to a husband who did not love her the great treasure of +fire-water which _Moh-kwa_, the Bear, had found. At this, the Raven, +who was hot to have the treasure of fire-water an' whose ears rang with +cur'osity to hear the end of the Story-that-never-ends, saw that he must +kill the Giant. Therefore, when the Squaw-who-has-dreams had ceased to +sob and revile him, an' was gone as he thought asleep, the Raven went +to his secret place where he kept the powder of the whirlwind an' took +a little and wrapped it in a leaf an' hid the leaf in the braids of his +long hair. Then the Raven went to sleep. + +"'When the Raven was asleep the Squaw-who-has-dreams went also +herself to the secret place an' got also a little of the powder of the +whirlwind. An' the next morning she arose early an' gave the powder +of the whirlwind to the Raven on the roast buffalo, the _Pez-hee-kee_, +which was his food. + +"'When the raven had eaten, the Squaw-who-has-dreams went out of the +teepee among the people an' called all the Sioux to come an' see the +Raven die. So the Sioux came gladly, an' the Raven was twisted an' +writhen with the powder of the whirlwind wrenching at his heart; an' his +teeth were tight like a trap; an' no words, but only foam, came from his +mouth; an' at last the Spirit, the _Chee-bee_, was twisted out of the +Raven; an' the Squaw-who-has-dreams was revenged for the death of the +Gray Elk whom she loved an' who always called her _Kee-nee-moo-sha_, the +Sweetheart, because it made her laugh. + +"'When the Raven was dead, the Squaw-who-has-dreams went to the secret +place an' threw the powder of the whirlwind into the Big-Muddy; an' +after that she distributed her fourteen bundles of talk that were +left among all the Sioux so that everybody could tell how glad he felt +because the Raven was twisted and died. An' for a week there was nothing +but happiness an' big talk among the Sioux; an' _Moh-kwa_, the Bear, +came laughing out of his canyon with the wonder of listening to it; +while the Squaw-who-has-dreams now, when her revenge was done, went with +_When-dee-goo_, the Giant, to his teepee and became his squaw. So now +everything was ended save the Story-that-never-ends.' + +"When Sioux Sam gets this far," concluded the Old Cattleman, "he says, +'an' my mother's words at the end were: An' boys who ask too many +questions will die, as did the Raven whose cur'osity was even greater +than his cruelty." + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's How The Raven Died, by Alfred Henry Lewis + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW THE RAVEN DIED *** + +***** This file should be named 23173.txt or 23173.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/1/7/23173/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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