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+The Project Gutenberg eBook of Wigwam Evenings, by Charles Alexander
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+Title: Wigwam Evenings
+       Sioux Folk Tales Retold
+
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+Author: Charles Alexander Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman
+
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+Release Date: February 16, 2009  [eBook #28099]
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+WIGWAM EVENINGS
+
+Sioux Folk Tales Retold
+
+by
+
+CHARLES A. EASTMAN (_Ohiyesa_) and ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN
+
+Illustrated by Edwin Willard Deming
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+BOSTON
+LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
+1928
+
+Copyright, 1909,
+by Little, Brown, and Company
+All rights reserved
+
+Printed in the United States of America
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE STRANGER WATCHES THE LAUGH-MAKER AND THE BEARS.
+
+FRONTISPIECE. _See page 189_]
+
+
+
+
+_BOOKS BY CHARLES A. EASTMAN_
+
+
+ INDIAN BOYHOOD
+
+ FROM THE DEEP WOODS TO CIVILIZATION
+
+ OLD INDIAN DAYS
+
+ INDIAN SCOUT TALKS
+
+ INDIAN HEROES AND GREAT CHIEFTAINS
+
+
+_In Collaboration with ELAINE G. EASTMAN_
+
+ WIGWAM EVENINGS
+
+
+
+
+NOTE
+
+
+_The authors wish to acknowledge the courtesy of The Ladies' Home
+Journal, Good Housekeeping, and The Woman's Home Companion, in giving
+permission to include in this volume several stories which first
+appeared in their pages._
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+These scattered leaves from the unwritten school-book of the wilderness
+have been gathered together for the children of to-day; both as a slight
+contribution to the treasures of aboriginal folk-lore, and with the
+special purpose of adapting them to the demands of the American school
+and fireside. That is to say, we have chosen from a mass of material the
+shorter and simpler stories and parts of stories, and have not always
+insisted upon a literal rendering, but taken such occasional liberties
+with the originals as seemed necessary to fit them to the exigencies of
+an unlike tongue and to the sympathies of an alien race.
+
+Nevertheless, we hope and think that we have been able to preserve in
+the main the true spirit and feeling of these old tales--tales that have
+been handed down by oral tradition alone through many generations of
+simple and story-loving people. The "Creation myths" and others rich in
+meaning have been treated very simply, as their symbolism is too
+complicated for very young readers; and much of the characteristic
+detail of the rambling native story-teller has been omitted. A story
+that to our thinking is most effectively told in a brief ten minutes is
+by him made to fill a long evening by dint of minute and realistic
+description of every stage of a journey, each camp made, every feature
+of a ceremony performed, and so on indefinitely. True, the attention of
+his unlettered listeners never flags; but our sophisticated youngsters
+would soon weary, we fear, of any such repetition.
+
+There are stories here of different types, each of which has its
+prototype or parallel in the nursery tales of other nations. The animal
+fables of the philosophic red man are almost as terse and satisfying as
+those of Aesop, of whom they put us strongly in mind. A little further
+on we meet with brave and fortunate heroes, and beautiful princesses,
+and wicked old witches, and magical transformations, and all the other
+dear, familiar material of fairy lore, combined with a touch that is
+unfamiliar and fascinating.
+
+The "Little Boy Man," the Adam of the Sioux, has a singular interest for
+us in that he is a sort of grown-up child, or a "Peter Pan" who never
+really grows up, and whose Eve-less Eden is a world where all the
+animals are his friends and killing for any purpose is unknown. Surely
+the red man's secret ideal must have been not war, but peace! The
+elements, indeed, are shown to be at war, as in the battle between Heat
+and Frost, or that of the mighty Thunder and the monstrous Deep; but let
+it be noted here that these conflicts are far more poetic and less
+bloody than those of Jack the Giant-killer and other redoubtable heroes
+of the Anglo-Saxon nursery.
+
+The animal loves are strange--perhaps even repellent; yet our children
+have read of a prince who falls in love with a White Cat; in the story
+of "The Runaways" we come upon the old, old ruse of magic barriers
+interposed between pursuer and pursued; and Andersen's charming fantasy
+of "The Woodcutter's Child" who disobeyed her Guardian Angel has
+scarcely a more delicate pathos than the "Ghost Wife."
+
+There are, to be sure, certain characters in this forest wonder-world
+that are purely and unmistakably Indian; yet after all Unk-to-mee, the
+sly one, whose adventures are endless, may be set beside quaint "Brer
+Fox" of Negro folk-lore, and Chan-o-te-dah is obviously an Indian
+brownie or gnome, while monstrous E-ya and wicked Double-Face
+re-incarnate the cannibal giants of our nursery days. Real children
+everywhere have lively imaginations that feed upon such robust marvels
+as these; and in many of us elders, I hope, enough of the child is left
+to find pleasure in a literature so vital, so human in its appeal, and
+one that, old as it is, has for the most part never until now put on the
+self-consciousness of type.
+
+The stories are more particularly intended to be read beside an open
+fire to children of five years old and upward, or in the school-room by
+the nine, ten, eleven-year-olds in the corresponding grades.
+
+                                                               E. G. E.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+
+ EVENINGS                                                         PAGE
+
+ FIRST           THE BUFFALO AND THE FIELD-MOUSE                     1
+
+ SECOND          THE FROGS AND THE CRANE                            15
+
+ THIRD           THE EAGLE AND THE BEAVER                           25
+
+ FOURTH          THE WAR PARTY                                      31
+
+ FIFTH           THE FALCON AND THE DUCK                            39
+
+ SIXTH           THE RACCOON AND THE BEE-TREE                       49
+
+ SEVENTH         THE BADGER AND THE BEAR                            61
+
+ EIGHTH          THE GOOD-LUCK TOKEN                                71
+
+ NINTH           UNKTOMEE AND HIS BUNDLE OF SONGS                   79
+
+ TENTH           UNKTOMEE AND THE ELK                               89
+
+ ELEVENTH        THE FESTIVAL OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE                  99
+
+ TWELFTH         EYA THE DEVOURER                                  107
+
+ THIRTEENTH      THE WARS OF WA-KEE-YAN AND UNK-TAY-HEE            115
+
+ FOURTEENTH      THE LITTLE BOY MAN                                123
+
+ FIFTEENTH       THE RETURN OF THE LITTLE BOY MAN                  131
+
+ SIXTEENTH       THE FIRST BATTLE                                  139
+
+ SEVENTEENTH     THE BELOVED OF THE SUN                            147
+
+ EIGHTEENTH      WOOD-CHOPPER AND BERRY-PICKER                     155
+
+ NINETEENTH      THE SON-IN-LAW                                    165
+
+ TWENTIETH       THE COMRADES                                      175
+
+ TWENTY-FIRST    THE LAUGH-MAKER                                   185
+
+ TWENTY-SECOND   THE RUNAWAYS                                      193
+
+ TWENTY-THIRD    THE GIRL WHO MARRIED THE STAR                     203
+
+ TWENTY-FOURTH   NORTH WIND AND STAR BOY                           211
+
+ TWENTY-FIFTH    THE TEN VIRGINS                                   221
+
+ TWENTY-SIXTH    THE MAGIC ARROWS                                  231
+
+ TWENTY-SEVENTH  THE GHOST-WIFE                                    243
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+                                                                       PAGE
+
+ THE STRANGER WATCHES THE LAUGH-MAKER AND THE BEARS          _Frontispiece_
+
+ SMOKY DAY TELLING TALES OF OLD DAYS AROUND HIS FIRE                      5
+
+ JUST THEN A FOX CREPT UP BEHIND THE CRANE                               23
+
+ THE FALCON CHASES THE OLD DRAKE                                         43
+
+ "COME DOWN, FRIENDS!" CALLED THE RACCOON                                54
+
+ SO THEY RAN AND THEY RAN OUT OF THE WOODS ON TO THE
+ SHINING WHITE BEACH                                                     57
+
+ "I WOULD NOT TROUBLE YOU," SAID HE, "BUT MY LITTLE
+ FOLKS ARE STARVING"                                                     67
+
+ "OH, THAT IS ONLY A BUNDLE OF OLD SONGS," REPLIED
+ UNKTOMEE                                                                83
+
+ TANAGELA AND HER LITTLE BROTHER                                         91
+
+ WITH HIS LONG SPEAR HE STABBED EACH OF THE MONSTERS                    129
+
+ HE CAME TO A LITTLE HUT WHERE LIVED AN OLD BEAR                        162
+
+ "DO NOT SHOOT A WHITE DEER WHEN YOU SEE HIM COMING
+ TOWARD YOU"                                                            171
+
+ THEY STOOD THUS WITH THEIR BEAKS TOUCHING OVER THE STREAM              200
+
+ STAR BOY ATTACKED BY HINHAN, THE OWL                                   215
+
+ SHE TOOK UP HANDSFUL OF ASHES TO THROW INTO THEIR FACES                227
+
+ HE OFFERED UP THE BODY AS A SACRIFICE                                  235
+
+ AT THE TOUCH OF HIS MAGIC ARROW, IT FELL AT HIS FEET                   240
+
+ HE WAS ONCE SEEN WITH SEVERAL DEER ABOUT HIM, PETTING
+ AND HANDLING THEM                                                      247
+
+
+
+
+FIRST EVENING
+
+THE BUFFALO AND THE FIELD-MOUSE
+
+
+
+
+WIGWAM EVENINGS
+
+
+
+
+FIRST EVENING
+
+
+The cold December moon is just showing above the tree-tops, pointing a
+white finger here and there at the clustered teepees of the Sioux, while
+opposite their winter camp on the lake shore a lonely, wooded island is
+spread like a black buffalo robe between the white, snow-covered ice and
+the dull gray sky.
+
+All by itself at the further end of the village stands the teepee of
+Smoky Day, the old story-teller, the school-master of the woods. The
+paths that lead to this low brown wigwam are well beaten; deep, narrow
+trails, like sheep paths, in the hard-frozen snow.
+
+To-night a generous fire of logs gives both warmth and light inside the
+teepee, and the old man is calmly filling his long, red pipe for the
+smoke of meditation, when the voices and foot-steps of several children
+are distinctly heard through the stillness of the winter night.
+
+The door-flap is raised, and the nine-year-old Tanagela, the
+Humming-bird, slips in first, with her roguish black eyes and her shy
+smile.
+
+"Grandmother, we have come to hear a story," she murmurs. "I have
+brought you a sun-dried buffalo-tongue, grandmother!"
+
+[Illustration: SMOKY DAY TELLING TALES OF OLD DAYS AROUND HIS FIRE.
+
+_Page 5_]
+
+One by one the little people of the village follow her, and all seat
+themselves on the ground about the central fire until the circle is well
+filled. Then the old man lays down his pipe, clears his throat once or
+twice and begins in a serious voice:
+
+"These old stories for which you ask teach us the way of life, my
+grandchildren. The Great-Grandfather of all made us all; therefore we
+are brothers.
+
+"In many of the stories the people have a common language, which now the
+Great Mystery has taken away from us, and has put a barrier between us
+and them, so that we can no longer converse together and understand the
+speech of the animal people.
+
+"Observe, further, that silence is greater than speech. This is why we
+honor the animals, who are more silent than man, and we reverence the
+trees and rocks, where the Great Mystery lives undisturbed, in a peace
+that is never broken.
+
+"Let no one ask a question until the story is finished."
+
+
+THE BUFFALO AND THE FIELD-MOUSE
+
+Once upon a time, when the Field-Mouse was out gathering wild beans for
+the winter, his neighbor, the Buffalo, came down to graze in the meadow.
+This the little Mouse did not like, for he knew that the other would mow
+down all the long grass with his prickly tongue, and there would be no
+place in which to hide. He made up his mind to offer battle like a man.
+
+"Ho, Friend Buffalo, I challenge you to a fight!" he exclaimed in a
+small, squeaking voice.
+
+The Buffalo paid no attention, no doubt thinking it only a joke. The
+Mouse angrily repeated the challenge, and still his enemy went on
+quietly grazing. Then the little Mouse laughed with contempt as he
+offered his defiance. The Buffalo at last looked at him and replied
+carelessly:
+
+"You had better keep still, little one, or I shall come over there and
+step on you, and there will be nothing left!"
+
+"You can't do it!" replied the Mouse.
+
+"I tell you to keep still," insisted the Buffalo, who was getting angry.
+"If you speak to me again, I shall certainly come and put an end to
+you!"
+
+"I dare you to do it!" said the Mouse, provoking him.
+
+Thereupon the other rushed upon him. He trampled the grass clumsily and
+tore up the earth with his front hoofs. When he had ended, he looked for
+the Mouse, but he could not see him anywhere.
+
+"I told you I would step on you, and there would be nothing left!" he
+muttered.
+
+Just then he felt a scratching inside his right ear. He shook his head
+as hard as he could, and twitched his ears back and forth. The gnawing
+went deeper and deeper until he was half wild with the pain. He pawed
+with his hoofs and tore up the sod with his horns. Bellowing madly, he
+ran as fast as he could, first straight forward and then in circles, but
+at last he stopped and stood trembling. Then the Mouse jumped out of his
+ear, and said:
+
+"Will you own now that I am master?"
+
+"No!" bellowed the Buffalo, and again he started toward the Mouse, as if
+to trample him under his feet. The little fellow was nowhere to be seen,
+but in a minute the Buffalo felt him in the other ear. Once more he
+became wild with pain, and ran here and there over the prairie, at times
+leaping high in the air. At last he fell to the ground and lay quite
+still. The Mouse came out of his ear, and stood proudly upon his dead
+body.
+
+"Eho!" said he, "I have killed the greatest of all beasts. This will
+show to all that I am master!"
+
+Standing upon the body of the dead Buffalo, he called loudly for a knife
+with which to dress his game.
+
+In another part of the meadow, Red Fox, very hungry, was hunting mice
+for his breakfast. He saw one and jumped upon him with all four feet,
+but the little Mouse got away, and he was dreadfully disappointed.
+
+All at once he thought he heard a distant call: "Bring a knife! Bring a
+knife!"
+
+When the second call came, Red Fox started in the direction of the
+sound. At the first knoll he stopped and listened, but hearing nothing
+more, he was about to go back. Just then he heard the call plainly, but
+in a very thin voice, "Bring a knife!" Red Fox immediately set out
+again and ran as fast as he could.
+
+By and by he came upon the huge body of the Buffalo lying upon the
+ground. The little Mouse still stood upon the body.
+
+"I want you to dress this Buffalo for me and I will give you some of the
+meat," commanded the Mouse.
+
+"Thank you, my friend, I shall be glad to do this for you," he replied,
+politely.
+
+The Fox dressed the Buffalo, while the Mouse sat upon a mound near by,
+looking on and giving his orders. "You must cut the meat into small
+pieces," he said to the Fox. When the Fox had finished his work, the
+Mouse paid him with a small piece of liver. He swallowed it quickly and
+smacked his lips.
+
+"Please, may I have another piece?" he asked quite humbly.
+
+"Why, I gave you a very large piece! How greedy you are!" exclaimed the
+Mouse. "You may have some of the blood clots," he sneered. So the poor
+Fox took the blood clots and even licked off the grass. He was really
+very hungry.
+
+"Please may I take home a piece of the meat?" he begged. "I have six
+little folks at home, and there is nothing for them to eat."
+
+"You can take the four feet of the Buffalo. That ought to be enough for
+all of you!"
+
+"Hi, hi! Thank you, thank you!" said the Fox. "But, Mouse, I have a wife
+also, and we have had bad luck in hunting. We are almost starved. Can't
+you spare me a little more?"
+
+"Why," declared the Mouse, "I have already overpaid you for the little
+work you have done. However, you can take the head, too!"
+
+Thereupon the Fox jumped upon the Mouse, who gave one faint squeak and
+disappeared.
+
+_If you are proud and selfish you will lose all in the end._
+
+
+
+
+SECOND EVENING
+
+THE FROGS AND THE CRANE
+
+
+
+
+SECOND EVENING
+
+
+Again the story-hour is come, and the good old wife of the legend-teller
+has made her poor home as warm and pleasant as may be, in expectation of
+their guests. She is proud of her husband's honorable position as the
+village teacher, and makes all the children welcome, as they arrive,
+with her shrill-voiced, cheerful greeting:
+
+"Han, han; sit down, sit down; that is right, that is very right, my
+grandchild!"
+
+To-night the Humming-bird has come leading by the hand her small
+brother, who stumbles along in his fringed, leathern leggings and
+handsomely beaded moccasins, his chubby, solemn face finished off with
+two long, black braids tied with strips of otter-skin. As he is inclined
+to be restless and to talk out of season, she keeps him close beside
+her.
+
+"It is cold to-night!" he pipes up suddenly when all is quiet. "Why do
+we not listen to these stories in the warm summer-time, elder sister?"
+
+"Hush, my little brother!" Tanagela reproves him with a frightened look.
+"Have you never heard that if the old stories are told in summer, the
+snakes will creep into our beds?" she whispers fearfully.
+
+"That is true, my granddaughter," assents the old man. "Yet we may tell
+a legend of summer days to comfort the heart of the small brother!"
+
+
+THE FROGS AND THE CRANE
+
+In the heart of the woods there lay a cool, green pond. The shores of
+the pond were set with ranks of tall bulrushes that waved crisply in
+the wind, and in the shallow bays there were fleets of broad water lily
+leaves. Among the rushes and reeds and in the quiet water there dwelt a
+large tribe of Frogs.
+
+On every warm night of spring, the voices of the Frogs arose in a
+cheerful chorus. Some voices were low and deep--these were the oldest
+and wisest of the Frogs; at least, they were old enough to have learned
+wisdom. Some were high and shrill, and these were the voices of the
+little Frogs who did not like to be reminded of the days when they had
+tails and no legs.
+
+"Kerrump! kerrump! I'm chief of this pond!" croaked a very large
+bullfrog, sitting in the shade of a water lily leaf.
+
+"Kerrump! kerrump! I'm chief of this pond!" replied a hoarse voice from
+the opposite bank.
+
+"Kerrump! kerrump! I'm chief of this pond!" boasted a third old Frog
+from the furthest shore of the pond.
+
+Now a long-legged white Crane was standing near by, well hidden by the
+coarse grass that grew at the water's edge. He was very hungry that
+evening, and when he heard the deep voice of the first Bullfrog he
+stepped briskly up to him and made a quick pass under the broad leaf
+with his long, cruel bill. The old Frog gave a frightened croak, and
+kicked violently in his efforts to get away, while over the quiet pond,
+splash! splash! went the startled little Frogs into deep water.
+
+The Crane almost had him, when something cold and slimy wound itself
+about one of his legs. He drew back for a second, and the Frog got
+safely away! But the Crane did not lose his dinner after all, for about
+his leg was curled a large black water snake, and that made a fair
+meal.
+
+Now he rested awhile on one leg, and listened. The first Frog was
+silent, but from the opposite bank the second Frog croaked boastfully:
+
+"Kerrump! kerrump! I'm chief of this pond!"
+
+The Crane began to be hungry again. He went round the pond without
+making any noise, and pounced upon the second Frog, who was sitting up
+in plain sight, swelling his chest with pride, for he really thought now
+that he was the sole chief of the pond.
+
+The Crane's head and most of his long neck disappeared under the water,
+and all over the pond the little Frogs went splash! splash! into the
+deepest holes to be out of the way.
+
+Just as he had the Frog by one hind leg, the Crane saw something that
+made him let go, flap his broad wings and fly awkwardly away to the
+furthest shore. It was a mink, with his slender brown body and wicked
+eyes, and he had crept very close to the Crane, hoping to seize him at
+his meal! So the second Frog got away too; but he was so dreadfully
+frightened that he never spoke again.
+
+After a long time the Crane got over his fright and he became very
+hungry once more. The pond had been still so long that many of the Frogs
+were singing their pleasant chorus, and above them all there boomed the
+deep voice of the third and last Bullfrog, saying:
+
+"Kerrump! kerrump! I'm chief of this pond!"
+
+The Crane stood not far from the boaster, and he determined to silence
+him once for all. The next time he began to speak, he had barely said
+"Kerrump!" when the Crane had him by the leg. He croaked and struggled
+in vain, and in another moment he would have gone down the Crane's long
+throat.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But just then a Fox crept up behind the Crane and seized _him_! The
+Crane let go the Frog and was carried off screaming into the woods for
+the Fox's supper. So the third Frog got away; but he was badly lamed by
+the Crane's strong bill, and he never dared to open his mouth again.
+
+_It is not a wise thing to boast too loudly._
+
+
+
+
+THIRD EVENING
+
+THE EAGLE AND THE BEAVER
+
+
+
+
+THIRD EVENING
+
+
+"No, elder sister, it is not for a hunter and a brave to fetch wood for
+the lodge fire! That is woman's task, and it is not right that you
+should ask it of me."
+
+"But see, my younger brother, you are only a small boy and can neither
+hunt nor fight; surely, therefore, it is well for you to help our mother
+at home!"
+
+The two children, Wasula and Chatanna, as they draw near the old
+story-teller's wigwam, are carrying on a dispute that has arisen between
+them earlier in the evening, when dry sticks were to be gathered for
+cooking the supper, and Chatanna, aged seven, refused to help his
+sister on the ground that it is not a warrior's duty to provide wood.
+Both appeal to their teacher to settle the question.
+
+"Hun, hun, hay!" good-naturedly exclaims the old man. "Truly, there is
+much to be said on both sides; but perhaps you can agree more easily
+after you have heard my story."
+
+
+THE EAGLE AND THE BEAVER
+
+Out of the quiet blue sky there shot like an arrow the great War-eagle.
+Beside the clear brown stream an old Beaver-woman was busily chopping
+wood. Yet she was not too busy to catch the whir of descending wings,
+and the Eagle reached too late the spot where she had vanished in the
+midst of the shining pool.
+
+He perched sullenly upon a dead tree near by and kept his eyes steadily
+upon the smooth sheet of water above the dam.
+
+After a time the water was gently stirred and a sleek, brown head
+cautiously appeared above it.
+
+"What right have you," reproached the Beaver-woman, "to disturb thus the
+mother of a peaceful and hard-working people?"
+
+"Ugh, I am hungry," the Eagle replied shortly.
+
+"Then why not do as we do--let other folks alone and work for a living?"
+
+"That is all very well for you," the Eagle retorted, "but not everybody
+can cut down trees with his teeth, or live upon bark and weeds in a
+mud-plastered wigwam. I am a warrior, not an old woman!"
+
+"It is true that some people are born trouble-makers," returned the
+Beaver, quietly. "Yet I see no good reason why you, as well as we,
+should not be content with plain fare and willing to toil for what you
+want. My work, moreover, is of use to others besides myself and family,
+for with my dam-building I deepen the stream for the use of all the
+dwellers therein, while you are a terror to all living creatures that
+are weaker than yourself. You would do well to profit by my example."
+
+So saying, she dove down again to the bottom of the pool.
+
+The Eagle waited patiently for a long time, but he saw nothing more of
+her; and so, in spite of his contempt for the harmless industry of an
+old Beaver-woman, it was he, not she, who was obliged to go hungry that
+morning.
+
+_Pride alone will not fill the stomach._
+
+
+
+
+FOURTH EVENING
+
+THE WAR-PARTY
+
+
+
+
+FOURTH EVENING
+
+
+There is no greater rudeness than to interrupt a story-teller, even by
+the slightest movement. All Sioux children are drilled in this rule of
+behavior, as in many others, from their earliest babyhood, and old Smoky
+Day has seldom to complain of any lack of attention. Even Teona and
+Waola, active boys of eleven and twelve, and already daring hunters,
+would be ashamed to draw upon themselves by word or motion the reproving
+looks of their mates. A disturbance so serious as to deserve the notice
+of the old teacher himself would disgrace them all!
+
+"Although we shall hear again of the animal people," he begins
+pleasantly but with due gravity, "and even of some who are not animals
+at all, we must remember that each of these warriors of whom I shall
+tell you really represents a man, and the special weakness of each
+should remind us to inquire of our own weakness. In this life, it is
+often the slow one who wins in the end; and this we shall now see!"
+
+
+THE WAR-PARTY
+
+One day the Turtle made ready to go upon the war-path. His comrades who
+wished to go with him were Live Coals, Ashes, the Bulrush, the
+Grasshopper, the Dragonfly and the Pickerel. All seven warriors went on
+in good spirits to the first camp, where a strong wind arose in the
+early morning and blew the Ashes away.
+
+"Iho!" exclaimed the others, "this one was no warrior!"
+
+The six kept on their way, and the second day they came to a river.
+There Live Coals perished at the crossing. "S-s-s," he said, and was
+gone!
+
+"Ah!" declared the five, "it is easy to see that he could not fight!"
+
+On the further side of the river they looked back, and saw that the
+Bulrush had stayed behind. He stood still and waved his hand to the
+others, who grumbled among themselves, saying:
+
+"He was no true brave, that one!"
+
+The four who were left went on till they came to a swampy place, and
+there the Grasshopper stuck fast. In his struggles to get out of the bog
+he pulled both legs off, and so there were only three to go upon the
+war-path!
+
+The Dragonfly mourned for his friend. He cried bitterly, and finally
+blew his nose so hard that his slender neck broke in two.
+
+"Ah!" declared the other two, "we are better off without those feeble
+ones!"
+
+The Pickerel and the Turtle, being left alone, advanced bravely into the
+country of the enemy. At the head of the lake they were met and quickly
+surrounded. The Pickerel escaped by swimming, but the Turtle, that slow
+one, was caught!
+
+They took him to the village, and there the head men held a council to
+decide what should be done with him.
+
+"We will build a fire and roast him alive in the midst of it," one
+proposed.
+
+"Hi-i-i!" the Turtle shrilled his war-cry. "That is the brave death I
+would choose! I shall trample the fire, and scatter live coals among the
+people!"
+
+"No," declared another, "we will boil water and throw him into the pot!"
+
+"Hi-i-i!" again cried the Turtle. "I shall dance in the boiling pot,
+and clouds of steam will arise to blind the eyes of the people!"
+
+The counsellors looked doubtfully at one another, and at last one said:
+
+"Why not carry him out to the middle of the lake and drown him?"
+
+Then the Turtle drew in his head and became silent.
+
+"Alas!" he groaned, "that is the only death I fear!"
+
+So the people took him in a canoe, and rowed out to the middle of the
+lake. There they dropped him in, and he sank like a stone!
+
+But the next minute he came up to the top of the water and again uttered
+his war-cry.
+
+"Hi-i-i!" he cried. "Now I am at home!" And he dived and swam wherever
+he would.
+
+This story teaches us that _patience and quick wit are better than
+speed_.
+
+
+
+
+FIFTH EVENING
+
+THE FALCON AND THE DUCK
+
+
+
+
+FIFTH EVENING
+
+
+The boaster is a well-known character in every Indian village; and it is
+quite plain from the number of stories warning us against self-praise,
+that the wise men of the tribe have not been slow to discover and point
+out this weakness of their people.
+
+The stories told by Smoky Day are seldom without a moral, and we may be
+sure that the children are not sent to him only to be entertained, but
+also to learn and profit by the stored-up wisdom of the past. Moreover,
+they are expected afterward to repeat the tales in the family circle,
+and there is much rivalry among the little folks as to who shall tell
+them best. Teona has a good memory and ready wit, and his versions are
+commonly received with approval, but it happens that little Tanagela,
+his cousin, has just won a triumph by her sprightly way of telling the
+fourth evening's tale of the seven warriors. The little maid listens
+to-night with burning cheeks and shining eyes, eager to repeat her
+success with the pretty story of
+
+
+THE FALCON AND THE DUCK
+
+The wintry winds had already begun to whistle and the waves to rise when
+the Drake and his mate gathered their half-grown brood together on the
+shores of their far northern lake.
+
+"Wife," said he, "it is now time to take the children southward, to the
+Warm Countries which they have never yet seen!"
+
+Very early the next morning they set out on their long journey, forming
+a great V against the sky in their flight. The mother led her flock and
+the father brought up the rear, keeping a sharp lookout for stragglers.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+All day they flew high in the keen air, over wide prairies and great
+forests of northern pine, until toward evening they saw below them a
+chain of lakes, glittering like a string of dark-blue stones. Swinging
+round in a half circle, they dropped lower and lower, ready to alight
+and rest upon the smooth surface of the nearest lake.
+
+Suddenly their leader heard a whizz sound like that of a bullet as it
+cuts the air, and she quickly gave the warning: "Honk! honk! Danger,
+danger!" All descended in dizzy spirals, but as the great Falcon swooped
+toward them with upraised wing, the ducklings scattered wildly hither
+and thither. The old Drake came last, and it was he who was struck!
+
+"Honk, honk!" cried all the Ducks in terror, and for a minute the air
+was full of soft downy feathers like flakes of snow. But the force of
+the blow was lost upon the well-cushioned body of the Drake, he soon got
+over his fright and went on his way southward with his family, while the
+Falcon dropped heavily to the water's edge with a broken wing.
+
+There he stayed and hunted mice as best he could from day to day,
+sleeping at night in a hollow log to be out of the way of the Fox and
+the Weasel. All the wit he had was not too much whereby to keep himself
+alive through the long, hard winter.
+
+Toward spring, however, the Falcon's wing had healed and he could fly a
+little, though feebly. The sun rose higher and higher in the blue
+heavens, and the Ducks began to return to their cool northern home.
+Every day a flock or two flew over the lake; but the Falcon dared not
+charge upon the flocks, much as he wished to do so. He was weak with
+hunger, and afraid to trust to the strength of the broken wing.
+
+One fine day a chattering flock of Mallards alighted quite near him,
+cooling their glossy breasts upon the gentle rippling wave.
+
+"Here, children," boasted an old Drake, "is the very spot where your
+father was charged upon last autumn by a cruel Falcon! I can tell you
+that it took all my skill and quickness in dodging to save my life. Best
+of all, our fierce enemy dropped to the ground with a broken wing!
+Doubtless he is long since dead of starvation, or else a Fox or a Mink
+has made a meal of the wicked creature!"
+
+By these words the Falcon knew his old enemy, and his courage returned.
+
+"Nevertheless, I am still here!" he exclaimed, and darted like a flash
+upon the unsuspecting old Drake, who was resting and telling of his
+exploit and narrow escape with the greatest pride and satisfaction.
+
+"Honk! honk!" screamed all the Ducks, and they scattered and whirled
+upward like the dead leaves in autumn; but the Falcon with sure aim
+selected the old Drake and gave swift chase. Round and round in dizzy
+spirals they swung together, till with a quick spurt the Falcon struck
+the shining, outstretched neck of the other, and snapped it with one
+powerful blow of his reunited wing.
+
+_Do not exult too soon; nor is it wise to tell of your brave deeds
+within the hearing of your enemy._
+
+
+
+
+SIXTH EVENING
+
+THE RACCOON AND THE BEE-TREE
+
+
+
+
+SIXTH EVENING
+
+
+"Ho, Chatanna," says the old story-teller, pleasantly, "I see that you
+have brought Mato, the Bear, with you to-night! I hope he will be good
+and not disturb the other scholars."
+
+"Grandfather," says Chatanna, earnestly, "he will be good. He obeys me,
+and is never troublesome like some pets. He will lie quietly here by me
+and listen to the story!"
+
+All the children range themselves around the brightly burning fire, the
+little boys sitting cross-legged, and the girls sideways, like demure
+little women.
+
+Although they do not know it yet, there is a special treat in store for
+them all this evening. The story is one in which feasting plays a part,
+and whenever good things to eat come into a story, it is a pleasant
+custom of the Sioux to offer some delicacy.
+
+The good old wife of the teacher has prepared a kettle full of her
+choicest wild rice, dark in color but of a flavor to be remembered, and
+a generous dish of boiled rice sprinkled with maple-sugar is passed to
+each child, (and doubtless shared with Mato by his loving friend,) at
+the close of the story about
+
+
+THE RACCOON AND THE BEE-TREE
+
+The Raccoon had been asleep all day in the snug hollow of a tree. The
+dusk was coming on when he awoke, stretched himself once or twice, and
+jumping down from the top of the tall, dead stump in which he made his
+home, set out to look for his supper.
+
+In the midst of the woods there was a lake, and all along the lake shore
+there rang out the alarm cries of the water people as the Raccoon came
+nearer and nearer.
+
+First the Swan gave a scream of warning. The Crane repeated the cry, and
+from the very middle of the lake the Loon, swimming low, took it up and
+echoed it back over the still water.
+
+The Raccoon sped merrily on, and finding no unwary bird that he could
+seize he picked up a few mussel-shells from the beach, cracked them
+neatly and ate the sweet meat.
+
+A little further on, as he was leaping hither and thither through the
+long, tangled meadow grass, he landed with all four feet on a family of
+Skunks--father, mother and twelve little ones, who were curled up sound
+asleep in a soft bed of broken dry grass.
+
+"Huh!" exclaimed the father Skunk. "What do you mean by this, eh?" And
+he stood looking at him defiantly.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Oh, excuse me, excuse me," begged the Raccoon. "I am very sorry. I did
+not mean to do it! I was just running along and I did not see you at
+all."
+
+"Better be careful where you step next time," grumbled the Skunk, and
+the Raccoon was glad to hurry on.
+
+Running up a tall tree he came upon two red Squirrels in one nest, but
+before he could get his paws upon one of them they were scolding angrily
+from the topmost bough.
+
+"Come down, friends!" called the Raccoon. "What are you doing up there?
+Why, I wouldn't harm you for anything!"
+
+"Ugh, you can't fool us," chattered the Squirrels, and the Raccoon went
+on.
+
+Deep in the woods, at last, he found a great hollow tree which attracted
+him by a peculiar sweet smell. He sniffed and sniffed, and went round
+and round till he saw something trickling down a narrow crevice. He
+tasted it and it was deliciously sweet.
+
+He ran up the tree and down again, and at last found an opening into
+which he could thrust his paw. He brought it out covered with honey!
+
+Now the Raccoon was happy. He ate and scooped, and scooped and ate the
+golden, trickling honey with both forepaws till his pretty, pointed face
+was daubed all over.
+
+Suddenly he tried to get a paw into his ear. Something hurt him terribly
+just then, and the next minute his sensitive nose was frightfully stung.
+He rubbed his face with both sticky paws. The sharp stings came thicker
+and faster, and he wildly clawed the air. At last he forgot to hold on
+to the branch any longer, and with a screech he tumbled to the ground.
+
+There he rolled and rolled on the dead leaves till he was covered with
+leaves from head to foot, for they stuck to his fine, sticky fur, and
+most of all they covered his eyes and his striped face. Mad with fright
+and pain he dashed through the forest calling to some one of his own
+kind to come to his aid.
+
+[Illustration: SO THEY RAN AND THEY RAN OUT OF THE WOODS ON TO THE
+SHINING WHITE BEACH.]
+
+The moon was now bright, and many of the woods people were abroad. A
+second Raccoon heard the call and went to meet it. But when he saw a
+frightful object plastered with dry leaves racing madly toward him he
+turned and ran for his life, for he did not know what this thing might
+be.
+
+The Raccoon who had been stealing the honey ran after him as fast as he
+could, hoping to overtake and beg the other to help him get rid of his
+leaves.
+
+So they ran and they ran out of the woods on to the shining white beach
+around the lake. Here a Fox met them, but after one look at the queer
+object which was chasing the frightened Raccoon he too turned and ran at
+his best speed.
+
+Presently a young Bear came loping out of the wood and sat up on his
+haunches to see them go by. But when he got a good look at the Raccoon
+who was plastered with dead leaves, he scrambled up a tree to be out of
+the way.
+
+By this time the poor Raccoon was so frantic that he scarcely knew what
+he was doing. He ran up the tree after the Bear and got hold of his
+tail.
+
+"Woo, woo!" snarled the Bear, and the Raccoon let go. He was tired out
+and dreadfully ashamed. He did now what he ought to have done at the
+very first--he jumped into the lake and washed off most of the leaves.
+Then he got back to his hollow tree and curled himself up and licked and
+licked his soft fur till he had licked himself clean, and then he went
+to sleep.
+
+_The midnight hunter steals at his own risk._
+
+
+
+
+SEVENTH EVENING
+
+THE BADGER AND THE BEAR
+
+
+
+
+SEVENTH EVENING
+
+
+The night is cold and clear, with a full moon overhead, and soon after
+supper Tanagela appears in her snug doeskin gown and warm robe of the
+same, tanned with the hair on, drawing her little brother in a great
+turtle-shell over the crusty snow.
+
+Old Smoky Day laughs heartily at the sight, standing just outside his
+teepee door to watch for the coming of the children. Nor is this all,
+for in the wake of this pair comes another dragging a rude sled made of
+a buffalo's ribs, well covered with soft furs, while still another has
+borrowed his mother's large raw-hide for the occasion. After their
+frolicsome ride through the brightly lighted village, they are all in a
+happy mood, ready to listen to the interesting story of
+
+
+THE BADGER AND THE BEAR
+
+The Badger lived in a little house under the hill and it was warm and
+snug. Here, too, lived mother Badger and the little Badgers, and they
+were fat and merry, for the gray old Badger was a famous hunter. Folks
+said he must have a magic art in making arrows, since he never failed to
+bring in meat enough and to spare!
+
+One day, father Badger stayed at home to make new arrows. His wife was
+busy slicing and drying the meat left over from the hunt of the day
+before, while the little ones played at hide-and-go-seek about the
+lodge.
+
+All at once, a big, clumsy shape darkened the low doorway. The children
+hid their faces in fear, but father Badger got up and welcomed the
+stranger kindly. He was a large black Bear. His shaggy skin hung
+loosely, and his little red eyes turned hungrily on the strips of good
+meat hung up to dry.
+
+"Ho! Be seated, friend!" said the old Badger. He lighted and passed the
+long pipe, while his wife at once broiled a thick slice of savory
+venison over the coals and offered it to their guest in a wooden basin.
+The Bear ate like a starving man, and soon after he had eaten he
+shuffled away.
+
+Next day the Bear came again, and on the day after, and for many days.
+At each visit he was invited to eat, according to the custom, and
+feasted well by the Badger, skilful hunter and generous host.
+
+After many days the Bear came one morning looking fat and sleek, and he
+had brought with him his whole family. Growling savagely, he rudely
+turned the Badger family out of their comfortable lodge, well stored
+with good food and soft robes. Even the magic arrows of father Badger
+were left behind. Crying bitterly, the homeless Badgers went off into
+the woods to seek another place of shelter. That night they slept cold
+under a great rock, and the children went supperless to bed, for the
+Badger could not hunt without his arrows.
+
+All the next day and for several days after he wandered through the
+forest looking for game, but found none. One night, the children were so
+hungry and cried so hard, that the poor old father at last said:
+
+"Well, then, I must beg for you!"
+
+So he crept back to his old home, where the Bear family now lived and
+grew fat. Standing in the doorway, he begged quite humbly for a small
+piece of meat.
+
+"I would not trouble you," said he, "but my little folks are starving!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+However, the Bear got up and turned him angrily out-of-doors, while the
+ill-natured little Bears chuckled and laughed to see how thin and hungry
+he looked!
+
+All laughed but one, and that one was the smallest and ugliest of the
+cubs, who had always been teased and abused by the others. He was sorry
+for the poor Badger, and when no one was looking he slyly stole a piece
+of his mother's meat and threw it into their hut, and then ran home
+again.
+
+This happened several times, and now the family of Badgers were only
+kept from starving by the gifts of the kind-hearted little Bear.
+
+At last came the Avenger, who sprang from a drop of innocent blood. He
+is very tall, strong and beautiful, and is feared by all wrong-doers.
+The Bear saw him coming and began to tremble. He at once called to the
+Badger, who was not far off, and invited him to come and eat.
+
+But the Avenger came first! Then the Bear called upon his wife and
+children to follow him, and took to his heels. He ran as fast as he
+could, looking over his shoulder from time to time, for he was really
+terribly frightened. He never came back any more, and the Badger family
+returned and joyfully possessed their old home.
+
+_There is no meanness like ingratitude._
+
+
+
+
+EIGHTH EVENING
+
+THE GOOD-LUCK TOKEN
+
+
+
+
+EIGHTH EVENING
+
+
+"Ah, Teona, I saw you out to-day with your new bow and arrows! I hope
+you have not been hasty to display your skill with the new weapons to
+the injury of any harmless creature," says old Smoky Day, gravely, as
+the boy hunter arrives quite out of breath.
+
+"You have been told," he adds, "that the animals long ago agreed to
+sacrifice their lives for ours, when we are in need of food or of skins
+for garments, but that we are forbidden to kill for sport alone."
+
+"Why, grandfather," the boy admits, "I followed a gray squirrel from
+tree to tree, and shot at him more than once, but he always dodged the
+arrow in time!"
+
+"And were you then hungry? did you have any use for the little fellow if
+you had killed him?" the old man persists. "There was once a squirrel
+who made a treaty of peace with a little boy like you. I will tell you
+his story to-night."
+
+
+THE GOOD-LUCK TOKEN
+
+There was once an old couple who lived quite alone with their little
+grandson in the midst of a great wood.
+
+They were wretchedly poor, for the old man was now growing too weak to
+hunt, and often came home at night empty-handed. The old woman dug roots
+and gathered berries for food; but alas! her eyesight was no longer
+good, and there were sometimes whole days when there was nothing in the
+lodge to eat.
+
+One day the boy became very hungry, and he said to his grandfather:
+
+"Grandfather, only make me a bow and some arrows, and I will hunt for us
+all!"
+
+The first time he went out into the forest with his bow and arrows he
+met with a Chickadee, who said to him:
+
+"Shoot me! I am willing to give my life to satisfy your hunger."
+
+The boy shot and took home the tiny bird, and when he threw it down
+before his grandmother it was no longer a Chickadee, but a fine, fat
+Partridge, and the poor old folks were overcome with joy.
+
+"Ah, ah, my grandson!" they cried. "You are indeed a hunter!"
+
+The next day, when he went out to hunt, the boy walked a long way
+without seeing any game. At last he thought he heard somebody laughing
+in the depths of the forest.
+
+The laughter sounded nearer and nearer as he walked on. By and by he was
+sure he heard some person talking to himself, and in the end he could
+actually make out the words, although he saw no one.
+
+"Ha, ha," chirrupped the gay voice, "I am surely the luckiest creature
+alive! I leap and flit all day long from bough to bough. I am quick as a
+flash, so that I can easily escape my enemies. In my free and happy life
+there is but one thing I fear, and that is a boy's blunt-headed arrow!"
+
+When the boy heard this, he advanced boldly, and his quick eyes made out
+a snug wigwam in the hollow of a great tree. He peeped in, and saw that
+the house was warm and well stored with nuts of all kinds. Its little
+owner sat flirting his bushy tail in the corner, upon a bed of dry
+leaves; but as soon as he spied the boy, he ran past him with a scream
+of fright and scampered off among the thick woods.
+
+The boy followed as fast as he could, and after a long chase he tired
+out and overtook the Squirrel, who sat coughing and grunting upon the
+bough of a tree just above his head.
+
+"Boy," he exclaimed, "only spare my life, and you shall have a charm
+that will make you a successful hunter as long as you live!"
+
+The boy agreed, and the Squirrel took him back to his own wigwam, where
+he filled the little fellow's bag with nuts from his pile.
+
+"These," said he, "are all lucky nuts, and if you put one of them in
+your pouch when you go out to hunt, you will surely kill a Bear!"
+
+This the boy did, and to the great joy of the poor old folks he became a
+famous hunter, so that from that time on they never wanted meat in
+their lodge.
+
+Do not harm your weaker brothers, for even a little Squirrel may be the
+bearer of good fortune!
+
+
+
+
+NINTH EVENING
+
+UNKTOMEE AND HIS BUNDLE OF SONGS
+
+
+
+
+NINTH EVENING
+
+
+"Now, my grandchildren," says Smoky Day, "I shall tell you of one who is
+well known in the wonder-world of our people. He is a great traveller,
+seems to know everybody, and is always good-natured, but he is also a
+shameless boaster and plays many tricks upon those he meets on the road.
+No one is so wise and cunning as Unktomee, the Spider; and yet he likes
+to appear as simple and innocent as a child!
+
+"His adventures are many. Sometimes he gets the better of the animal
+people, and again they may succeed in outwitting him, so that he is well
+laughed at for his trouble! We may all learn from these stories of
+Unktomee and his sly tricks how to be on our guard against those
+deceitful ones who come to us in the guise of friends."
+
+
+UNKTOMEE AND HIS BUNDLE OF SONGS
+
+It was a bright, sunshiny day, and the flocks of Ducks flying northward
+had all stopped to rest beside a little lake, and were splashing and
+paddling about in the cool water. They were happy and very noisy, but
+suddenly they ceased their cries and calls and became quite silent, for
+a queer figure was seen coming toward them along the curve of the beach.
+It was the figure of a strange little old man, bent nearly double under
+a huge load of something that looked like dry grass.
+
+"Quack, quack!" said one of the boldest of the Ducks, as the old man
+drew near with his burden. "What have you there?"
+
+"Oh, that is only a bundle of old songs," replied Unktomee with a smile;
+for it was that sly one, that maker of mischief!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Thereupon the Ducks took courage, and quacked and fluttered all about
+him, crying:
+
+"Sing us an old song, Unktomee!"
+
+Willingly Unktomee threw down his load upon the lake shore, and with the
+utmost good nature began to build a little teepee of sticks, thatching
+it with the dry grass. In a few minutes it was done, and he kindly
+invited the ducks to enter.
+
+With rustling wings and shining feathers they crowded into the little
+teepee until it could hold no more.
+
+Unktomee was there, too. He stayed by the door, and began to sing:
+
+    "Ishtogmus wachee po!
+     Tuwa etowan kin
+     Ishtah ne sha kta!
+
+  (Dance with your eyes shut!
+  Whoever looks shall have red eyes!)"
+
+Every one of the foolish Ducks shut his eyes tight, and Unktomee, as he
+sang, quietly seized one after another by the neck as they danced in a
+ring around the teepee, wrung their necks quickly and cast them behind
+them. Not one had a chance to squawk, so cleverly was the work done,
+and there would soon have been none to listen to the old songs!
+
+But after a little a small Duck slyly opened his eyes, and saw Unktomee
+wringing the necks of his friends.
+
+"Fly! Fly!" he exclaimed in terror. "He is killing us all!"
+
+So all the Ducks that were left alive rose up with a mighty rush of
+wings and a loud clamor of voices. The grass teepee fell to pieces, and
+the lucky ones flew away; but lying on the ground beside Unktomee were
+enough fat Ducks for a fine feast!
+
+And the little Duck that peeped forever after had red eyes!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The children liked this story very much, but it was shorter than usual.
+
+"Tell us about the feast!" they cried. "Tell us about the feast of
+Unktomee!" So old Smoky Day began again:
+
+Now Unktomee wished to make a feast. The first thing he did was to stand
+and cry aloud:
+
+"Chagah aoo po-o-o! (Somebody bring me a kettle!)"
+
+He called and called for a long time. At last somebody appeared with the
+kettle. It was the Fox, who was carrying it in his mouth. Unktomee
+thanked him carelessly, and after waiting awhile, the Fox went sadly
+away again.
+
+Then Unktomee dressed the Ducks whose necks he had wrung, built a fire,
+fetched water and put them on to boil. But he was tired as well as
+hungry, and while his dinner was cooking, he thought he might as well
+take a nap. So he lay down in the warm sand near by, first telling his
+Face to be on the watch and to twitch if any one came, so as to awaken
+him.
+
+While Unktomee slept, the Fox returned with a friend. Unktomee's Face
+did not twitch as it had been told to do, for the Foxes stroked it very
+gently, and told it to be quiet. Having done this, they quietly ate
+every bit of the rich meat, and put the bones back into the pot.
+
+When at last Unktomee yawned and awoke, he was very hungry indeed. He
+looked to see whether his dinner was ready, and found nothing in the
+kettle except bones!
+
+"Ah! the Ducks have boiled too long," he said to himself. "The meat will
+all be in the bottom of the pot."
+
+When he discovered that the bones had been picked clean, he was very
+angry, and scolded his Face severely for not awakening him in time.
+
+_He who deceives others may himself be caught some day._
+
+
+
+
+TENTH EVENING
+
+UNKTOMEE AND THE ELK
+
+
+[Illustration: TANAGELA AND HER LITTLE BROTHER.]
+
+
+
+
+TENTH EVENING
+
+
+"Tell us another story of Unktomee, grandfather!" cry several of the
+children, as soon as they are inside the old story-teller's wigwam on
+the tenth evening.
+
+"Ah, I thought you would ask for another!" remarks the old man with
+quiet satisfaction. "There are many stories of his dealings with the
+animal people. He loves to go among them and even to take their shape,
+that he may make fools of them the more easily. This may do very well
+for a time, but it is generally not long before he is ready to cry
+'Enough!'"
+
+
+UNKTOMEE AND THE ELK
+
+It was midsummer, and the Elk people were feasting in great numbers upon
+the slopes of the mountain. Sleek, fat and handsome, they browsed hither
+and thither off the juicy saplings and rich grass, drank their fill from
+the clear mountain streams, and lay down to rest at their ease in the
+green shade through the heat of the day.
+
+Unktomee, who had been travelling far and was hungry and foot-sore,
+looked upon them with envy.
+
+"Ah," said he to himself, "that is the life for me! Surely these are the
+happiest people on earth, for they have all things in abundance and are
+so fleet of foot that they need fear no danger!"
+
+Accordingly, he hid his bow and quiver full of arrows in a hollow tree,
+with all of his clothing and other weapons, so that he might appear
+quite naked and harmless before the timid Elk people. They saw that he
+was unarmed, and they stood still as he approached.
+
+"Here comes Unktomee," said they doubtfully to one another.
+
+"Ah, brothers!" he pleaded with them, "you have enough; you are at peace
+with the tribes; you overlook the valley and all its dwellers are below
+you! None is so happy as you. Will you not make me one of you?"
+
+"Friend!" exclaimed their leader, "you do not know what you ask! To be
+sure, it is now midsummer; our clothing and our weapons are new, there
+is food in plenty, and we may seem to be happy. However, our antlers,
+our only weapons, are yet soft, and the Wolf and the Wild Cat are ready
+and fearless to attack us. Our only hope of escape is in our fleetness,
+since we are watched all day by the cruel eyes of those who live upon
+flesh, of whom the most dangerous of all is Man!"
+
+"I know all this," replied Unktomee. "Others may have stronger weapons
+than you, but I see none with your beauty, your stately height, your
+freedom and ease of life. I beg of you to allow me to share it!"
+
+"If you can pass the test, we will admit you," they said at last.
+"Notice our eyes--we must be ever watchful; our ears--they are
+constantly on guard! Can you smell an enemy even against the wind? Can
+you detect his footfall before he is near?"
+
+Unktomee passed the test and was finally admitted to the company of the
+Elks; in fact, he was made the chief of them all, for such he wanted to
+be.
+
+"Now," said they, "we have made you our leader. You must guide us so
+that we shall be safe from the hunters!"
+
+Proud of his long limbs and of his stately antlers, he led them all down
+the hill, running back now and then to urge the hindermost ones into
+line. When they stopped to rest, he lay down a little apart from the
+others, under a spreading oak.
+
+Suddenly they all sprang up and fled, for Unktomee had cried out to
+them:
+
+"Fly! fly! I am struck by an arrow!"
+
+But when no hunter appeared, they were provoked, and grumbled among
+themselves:
+
+"Unktomee is deceiving us; it was only a stick that fell from the tree!"
+
+Then they all lay down a second time, and a second time the Elks were
+aroused in vain. They were still more displeased, and said to one
+another:
+
+"It was only an acorn that fell upon him while he slept!"
+
+A third time they lay down, but this time the Elks stole away from
+Unktomee and left him sleeping, for they had scented the hunter. When
+the hunter came, therefore, he found only the chief Elk still sleeping,
+and he let fly an arrow and wounded him severely.
+
+Unktomee was now in great fear and pain, and he bitterly regretted that
+he had become an Elk, for he had learned that their life is full of
+anxiety. The Elks had taught him that it is well to be content with our
+own, for there is no life that is free from hardship and danger.
+
+
+
+
+ELEVENTH EVENING
+
+THE FESTIVAL OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE
+
+
+
+
+ELEVENTH EVENING
+
+
+"You are late to-night, my grandchildren," grumbles the good old wife of
+Smoky Day, as she stands in front of her low doorway, peering under the
+folds of her dark blanket at the little toiling figures slowly coming
+nearer, and the many twinkling lights across the snow.
+
+"My mother gave a feast to-day," murmurs Tanagela, in her soft voice.
+"There were so many people for us to serve--I could not come any sooner!
+But see, grandmother! I have brought you some boiled rice and venison,"
+she ends, proudly bringing out the heavy kettle from under her skin robe
+as they enter the well-smoked lodge.
+
+"Ah, ah!" exclaims the story-teller, whose old eyes brighten at the
+sight of the good food. "We are to feast to-night, it seems; therefore I
+shall tell you of a feast and what came after."
+
+
+THE FESTIVAL OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE
+
+The big voice of the Bumble-Bee was heard in every nook and corner of
+the wood, and from end to end of the deep valley, for Unktomee, the
+generous, was giving a feast, and the Bee was his herald, the crier of
+the day.
+
+"Ho, every creeper, every buzzer, all ye little people who fly without
+feathers, come this day to the festival!" boomed the Bee. "All must
+prepare to exhibit their best skill; the Toad, who can neither fly nor
+run, his brother the Bullfrog, with his band of musicians, and even the
+Flying-squirrel with the rest. Tanagela, the Humming-bird, will be the
+judge of beauty, and the Bat will judge your skilful performance in the
+air. That wise medicine-man, the Serpent, will also be there!"
+
+So Unktomee's herald made the cedar-fringed gulches and pine-scented
+hilltops fairly hum with his call.
+
+It was in July, the Moon of Black Cherries, and the Little People
+gathered in great numbers at the place of the Singing Waterfall, which
+had been chosen for the meeting-place. The happy valley buzzed with
+their million voices.
+
+Then Unktomee, the prudent, saw fit to appoint certain warriors to keep
+order at the festival. For many were present, therefore mishap or
+injustice might be.
+
+The Wolf was ordered to watch upon the surrounding hills, so that no
+enemy should come near; and the Owl was appointed to keep order within
+the camp, and especially to see that neither the Bat, the Night-hawk
+nor the Swallow tribe were permitted to disturb the little insect
+people.
+
+The day opened well, with a chorus of praise from the great orchestra--a
+sunrise song, opened by Ta-she-ya-ka, the Meadow-lark, in which even the
+crickets joined, with their slender instruments.
+
+Then came the contest of beauty, in which the Butterflies, in their
+gauzy dresses of every color, won the first prize. The Bat, however, who
+was to judge of feats on the wing, had slyly made a meal of some of the
+lesser contestants. The Owl swooped down upon him to punish him, and
+there was great confusion.
+
+Unktomee could do nothing with his guests. The Toad began to devour the
+smaller creepers, the Snake attacked the Toad, and even the Wolf came
+down from his station on the hills to make a raid upon the helpless
+Little People. Thus began the warfare and preying among these feeble
+tribes that has lasted to this day.
+
+_It is not wise to put the strong in authority over the weak._
+
+
+
+
+TWELFTH EVENING
+
+EYA THE DEVOURER
+
+
+
+
+TWELFTH EVENING
+
+
+"We shall hear to-night of one good deed done by Unktomee," begins the
+old teacher, when all are in their places. "In the old days, longer ago
+than any one can remember, no one was more feared and dreaded than Eya,
+the Glutton, the devouring spirit that went to and fro upon the earth,
+able to draw all living creatures into his hideous, open mouth! His form
+was monstrous and terrifying. No one seemed to know what he feared, or
+how he might be overcome. Whole tribes of people were swallowed up by
+him, and there was no help!
+
+"At last came Unktomee, and by his quick wit and genial ways got the
+better of this enemy of our race. He is very hard to kill, for he often
+comes to life again after he has been left for dead. Perhaps by Eya is
+meant the terrible hunger, or the sickness that runs like fire from
+lodge to lodge and sweeps away whole villages."
+
+
+EYA THE DEVOURER
+
+Once upon a time, an old woman who was gathering wood found a lost babe
+deep in the forest, and bringing him to the camp, gave him to the
+chief's pretty daughter. The girl, who was very tender-hearted, took the
+child and cared for him as her own.
+
+She fed him often, but he was never satisfied and continually cried for
+more. When he screamed, his mouth stretched from ear to ear, and far
+down his red throat she seemed to see a great company of people
+struggling in confusion. However, she told no one, but patiently tended
+the strange child and carried him about with her everywhere.
+
+At dead of night, when all in the lodge were asleep, the tender-hearted
+maiden was aroused by the crying of her babe. As she bent over him,
+there seemed to come from his wide-open mouth, as if from the depths of
+the earth, the far-off voices of many people in distress.
+
+Then at last she went and awoke the chief, her father, and said to him:
+
+"Father, come and listen to the voice of my babe!"
+
+He listened for a moment and exclaimed in horror:
+
+"My child, this is Eya, he who devours all things, even whole villages!
+This that we hear is the crying of the people whom he has swallowed. Now
+he has taken the form of an innocent babe and is come to destroy us!
+
+"We must steal away quietly while he sleeps, and travel fast and far
+before morning."
+
+In whispers they aroused the sleeping people, and all broke camp without
+disturbing the child, who once more slept in the chief's teepee, which
+they left still standing.
+
+All night they travelled at their best pace, and when morning came, they
+had come to a wide and deep river. Here Unktomee, the crafty one, came
+to meet them, smiling and rubbing his hands.
+
+When he had learned what caused the people of a whole village to flee in
+the night, he kindly offered to help them against their powerful enemy.
+Terrified though they were, they were even then unwilling, for they
+feared lest he might play some trick upon them; but Unktomee persisted,
+and went back upon their trail to meet the Devourer.
+
+He had not gone far before he saw Eya hastening after the fleeing ones,
+his ugly mouth gaping widely and his great, unwieldy body supported by a
+pair of feeble legs that tottered under its weight.
+
+"Where are you going, younger brother?" asked Unktomee, pleasantly.
+
+"How dare you call me younger brother?" angrily returned the other. "Do
+you not know that I was the first one created upon the solid earth?"
+
+"If that is so, I must be older than you," replied Unktomee, in his
+good-natured way, "for I was created upon the face of the water, before
+the dry land itself! I know whom you seek, younger brother, and am come
+out to help you.
+
+"Those foolish ones whom you are following are encamped on the river
+close at hand, and I will lead you to them presently. They cannot escape
+you. Why not rest a little now, and refresh yourself with the delicacy
+that I have prepared for you? See, these are human ears, nicely dried
+for your meal!"
+
+So saying, Unktomee pointed to a great heap of mussel shells that lay
+upon the hill-top. The greedy monster was deceived, and hastily
+swallowed the shells, which caused him such distress that he was
+helpless, and was easily dispatched by the men of the village, who now
+came out to kill him. No sooner had they cut open his enormous body with
+their knives, than a large company of people issued forth upon the
+plain, and began dancing and singing songs of praise for their
+deliverance.
+
+
+
+
+THIRTEENTH EVENING
+
+THE WARS OF WA-KEE-YAN AND UNK-TAY-HEE
+
+
+
+
+THIRTEENTH EVENING
+
+
+"Were you not frightened last night, grandfather?" exclaims Waola, the
+boldest of the boys, before the little circle has fairly settled into
+quiet. "Thunder in the Moon of Sore Eyes is not heard so often! My
+little sister cried bitterly, and Uncle says that it is an omen of
+misfortune."
+
+"So it would have seemed to me once, my grandson," replies the old sage,
+with his pleasant smile. "But I am an old man, and I have heard the
+Thunder-Bird speak even more loudly, both in season and out of season,
+yet no evil came of it to our people. Truly I think that the Great
+Mystery has set bounds to the terrors of these his warriors, so that we
+need not tremble before them as in the old days, when their laws were
+not fully known.
+
+"There is a very old story concerning these matters, which I will tell
+you to-night."
+
+
+THE WARS OF WA-KEE-YAN AND UNK-TAY-HEE
+
+Wa-kee-yan is the Great Bird of storm and tempest, who was appointed in
+the beginning of things to keep the earth and also the upper air pure
+and clean. Although there is sometimes death and destruction in his
+path, yet he is a servant of the Great Mystery and his work is good.
+
+Yet he rules only one half the year. The other half is ruled by
+Wa-zee-yah, the Spirit of Cold, and he too purifies the air and the
+water.
+
+When Wa-zee-yah, the North Wind, the Cold-Maker, comes, the animals put
+on thicker robes and some even change their color to be like the white
+blanket that he lays over the earth. Then the waters are imprisoned for
+a season, and all things sleep and rest.
+
+Then comes He-yo-kah, the South-Wind, also called the Fool-Wind, he who
+is the herald of the Thunder-Bird and causes all the trees and the
+plains to put on their garments of green.
+
+For ages there had been war between the Thunder-Bird, the ruler of the
+upper air, and the Water Monster, or Unk-tay-hee, the ruler of the deep.
+Whenever a black cloud appeared in the sky and cast its threatening
+shadow upon the water, all the fishes knew it for a warning to descend
+to the floor of their watery abode, the deep, dark realm, away from the
+power of his arrows.
+
+Even the sea birds must seek their sheltered coves and hiding-places,
+pull tight their downy blankets and be still, for now Wa-kee-yan would
+sweep sea and air with his mighty wing, and punish the disobedient.
+
+All was quiet before his approach. His breath was the tempest, the roll
+of the thunder his drum-beat, the lightning's flash his tomahawk. At his
+approach, the face of the deep was thrown into a mighty commotion.
+Column after column of white warriors advanced boldly upon the land, and
+broke upon the rocky shores with a loud war-whoop. Such was the combat
+of the Spirits of Air and Water, at which all living creatures hid
+themselves and trembled.
+
+At last the great peace-maker, the Sun, appeared, holding in his hand
+the Rainbow, like a flag of many colors, a sign that the battle is over.
+He sent each of the warriors to his own place. Gentle airs came down
+from above to meet and play with the little waves that danced upon the
+blue water. He who is our Father, the father of our bodies, whose wife
+is our Mother the Earth, wishes safety and peace for all his children,
+therefore he still watches the unruly ones from the middle of the sky,
+and their battles are quickly ended.
+
+
+
+
+FOURTEENTH EVENING
+
+THE LITTLE BOY MAN
+
+
+
+
+FOURTEENTH EVENING
+
+
+"I shall now tell you of the First Man, and how he came upon earth as an
+infant, yet without father or mother. Listen well, my children, for you
+should never forget this story."
+
+
+THE LITTLE BOY MAN
+
+At the beginning of things, He-who-was-first-Created found himself
+living alone. The earth was here before him, clothed in green grass and
+thick forests, and peopled with the animal tribes. Then all these spoke
+one language, and the Lonely One was heralded by them everywhere as he
+roamed to and fro over the world, both upon dry land and in the depths
+of the sea.
+
+One day, when he returned to his teepee from a long wandering, he felt a
+pain in his left foot, and lo! a splinter in the great toe! Drawing out
+the splinter, he tossed it upward through the smoke-hole of the lodge.
+He could hear it roll and rattle down over the birch-bark covering, and
+in the instant that it touched the ground, there arose the cry of a
+new-born child!
+
+He-who-was-first-Created at once came forth and took up the infant, who
+was the Boy Man, the father of the human race here upon earth.
+
+Now the little Boy Man grew and flourished, and was perfectly happy
+under the wise guidance of his friend and Elder Brother. Although he had
+neither father nor mother, and only animals for playmates, it is said
+that no child born of human parents has ever led so free and happy a
+life as he. In those days, there was peace between the animals and the
+Boy Man. Sometimes they challenged him to friendly contests, whereupon
+He-who-was-first-Created taught his little brother how to outwit them by
+clever tricks and devices. This he was often able to do; but not always;
+for sometimes the animals by their greater strength finally overcame
+him.
+
+One morning the Boy Man went out from his lodge as usual to the day's
+occupations, but did not return at night nor for many nights afterward.
+He-who-was-first-Created mourned and wailed long for the lost one. At
+last he became angry, and set out to look for the bones of his brother.
+
+He travelled from east to west across the world, but found no trace of
+the one he sought, and all of the land creatures whom he questioned
+declared that they had not seen him pass by.
+
+Next he followed the rivers, and the shores of the Great Lakes, and
+there one day he heard an old woman singing as she cut down a tree at
+the edge of the water. The traveller came closer to hear the words of
+the song; and lo! it was a song of the scalp-dance, and in it she spoke
+the name of the lost Boy Man.
+
+He-who-was-first-Created now turned himself into a King-fisher, and so
+approached unsuspected and talked with the old Beaver-woman. From her he
+learned that his younger brother had been enticed into the Great Water
+and destroyed by the monster of the deep, Unk-tay-hee. Thereupon he went
+down to the shore and changed himself into a tall pine overlooking the
+lake.
+
+For many moons He-who-was-first-Created remained thus, until at last he
+beheld two huge forms rising up in the midst of the waves. The monsters
+glided gradually toward the shore and lay basking in the sun at his
+feet, rocking gently with the motion of the quiet water. It was old
+Unk-tay-hee and his mate.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Husband!" exclaimed the wife of Unk-tay-hee, "for ages this has been
+our resting-place, and yet I have never seen this tree before!"
+
+"Woman, the tree has always been there!" returned the water monster.
+
+"But I am sure it was not here before," she insisted.
+
+Then Unk-tay-hee wound his immense scaly tail about the giant pine and
+tried to pull it out by the roots. The water foamed and boiled with his
+struggles, but He-who-was-first-Created stood firm, and at last the
+monster gave up the attempt.
+
+"There," he declared, "I told you it had always been there!" His wife
+appeared satisfied, and presently the gentle waves rocked them both to
+sleep.
+
+Then He-who-was-first-Created returned to his own shape, and with his
+long spear he stabbed each of the monsters, so that with groans of pain
+they dove down to their homes at the bottom of the great lake, and the
+waters boiled above them, and the foam was red with their blood.
+
+
+
+
+FIFTEENTH EVENING
+
+THE RETURN OF THE LITTLE BOY MAN
+
+
+
+
+FIFTEENTH EVENING
+
+
+Grandfather has scarcely taken up his long pipe to-night before the
+children begin to gather, impatient for the end of the story. Chatanna
+has been begging his father to tell him whether the Little Boy Man was
+ever found, but he has been obliged to wait for the old man to go on
+with his tale.
+
+
+THE RETURN OF THE LITTLE BOY MAN
+
+He-who-was-first-Created now took the form of a swallow, and flew down
+from the high cliffs, skimming over the surface of the water. Within a
+sheltered cove among the pines, the water-birds were holding a least.
+Some were singing, some dancing, and that great medicine-man, the Loon,
+was among them, blowing his sacred whistle.
+
+The Lonely One in the form of a swallow dipped down to the water's edge
+and addressed the Loon respectfully, asking for some of the secrets of
+his medicine. The Loon was very kind. He taught him several mystery
+songs, and showed him how to treat the sick.
+
+"Now," said the Swallow, "if you will permit me to take your form for a
+short time, I will go down into the deep and try to cure Unk-tay-hee and
+his wife of their dreadful wounds!"
+
+The Loon made no objection, so the new-made conjurer balanced himself
+upon the crest of a wave and gave his loudest call before he dove down,
+down into the blue water! There in the watery world the people saw him
+as it were sailing down from the sky. His path led now through a great
+forest of sea weeds, now upon the broad plains, and finally he came into
+a deep valley of the under-world, where he found everybody anxiously
+waiting for him. He was met by the old Turtle, who begged him to make
+haste, for the chief and his wife were in great agony.
+
+"Let all the people retire, for I must be alone in order to work a
+cure," declared the supposed medicine-man, as he entered the teepee of
+the water monster.
+
+All went away unwillingly--the Turtle last of all. He told the others
+that he had heard the great conjurer whisper as his hand touched the
+door-flap; "Ah, my poor brother!" Now this door-flap was made from the
+skin of the little Boy Man.
+
+He-who-was-first-Created, when he was inside the lodge, paid no
+attention to the dreadful groans of the monsters, but at once took down
+the skin of his brother, and as he did so, he saw the little Water-snake
+spying at him from behind the doorway. The others, who were suspicious,
+had sent him as a scout to see what the medicine-man was doing.
+
+He called the Snake inside, and compelled him to tell where he should
+find the bones of his brother. Then for a reward he painted the Snake
+green, and declared that as he had served both sides, he should crawl
+upon his belly forever after.
+
+He-who-was-first-Created gathered up all the bones and took them with
+him to dry land. There he immediately built a fire and heated stones for
+the first sweat lodge. He also picked a bunch of sage-brush, and fetched
+water in a large shell.
+
+Having carefully wrapped the bones with the dry skin of his brother and
+built over them a low shelter of willow withes, he covered the lodge
+tightly with green boughs and then thrust in his right arm and began to
+sprinkle water with the bunch of sage upon the heated stones.
+
+The steam arose and filled the lodge, and with the steam there came a
+faint sighing sound.
+
+A second time he sprinkled water, and there were rustlings within as if
+the dry bones were gathering themselves together.
+
+When he put in his hand for the third time he could hear a sound like
+far-off singing. Immediately after the Little Boy Man spoke in his own
+voice, begging to be let out of the lodge.
+
+
+
+
+SIXTEENTH EVENING
+
+THE FIRST BATTLE
+
+
+
+
+SIXTEENTH EVENING
+
+
+"This is a very long story that I am telling you," declares Smoky Day,
+"and many evenings will not see the end of it. There are some adventures
+of the Little Boy Man that must wait for another winter. To-night I will
+tell you how it happened that the old friendship was broken between man
+and the animal people."
+
+
+THE FIRST BATTLE
+
+Now after some time it came about that the animals became jealous of the
+greater wit of the Boy Man, and as they feared that he would somehow
+gain the mastery over them, they began secretly to plot against him.
+
+At about the same time the Boy Man began to question his Elder Brother,
+and to ask him:
+
+"Brother, why have all these people weapons, such as spears upon their
+heads and daggers in their mouths, while I am unarmed and naked?"
+
+Then He-who-was-first-Created replied sadly:
+
+"My younger brother, the time is now come to give you weapons and I am
+sorry for it. Now at last there is war in the hearts of the animals and
+of man; but they are many and you are only one, therefore I shall help
+you!"
+
+Then he gave him a strong bow and arrows with flint heads, also a spear
+with head of stone, and showed him how to use them.
+
+Afterward he tossed a pebble into the air, and it came down as a wall of
+rock, enclosing their dwelling. He tossed up another and another,
+until they were defended by high cliffs on every side. Upon the flat
+tops of the cliffs he spread out the new weapons, whose stone heads were
+destined to be scattered far and wide when the battle should be over, to
+be sought out and preserved by men as relics of the beginning of
+warfare.
+
+The first battle was announced by a single Buffalo-bull, running at top
+speed over the prairie. This messenger assigned to each his part in the
+attack. The Beaver was ordered to dam the streams, and the Badger to dig
+trenches under the defences of the Boy Man, so that they might flood his
+dwelling.
+
+The Rabbits, Squirrels and other feeble folk were to gather food for the
+warriors, of whom the principal ones were the Bear, Wolf, Wildcat and
+Bison. The Swallow served as messenger to the birds, and the swift Trout
+carried the news to the finny tribes, for all were to join in this
+war.
+
+With the gray dawn came the Wolf's long howl, the first war-whoop,
+breaking the silence and peace of the world.
+
+When the sun rose, dancing for an instant upon the sharp edge of the
+sky, one after another all of the animals joined in the great war-cry,
+with bellowings and screechings of the larger beasts, the barking of
+Wolves, the hissing of Snakes, and the shrill cries of the feathered
+ones, of whom the Crane and the Loon were loudest.
+
+The Boy Man stood erect on the top of the wall, and saw the warriors
+coming from all directions, as far as the eye could reach. On they came,
+with a mighty thunder of hoofs and a trampling of many feet! Overhead
+that great war-chief of the air, the Eagle, commanded his winged forces,
+while from below the creepers and crawlers began to scale the lofty
+defences of the Boy Man. There he stood alone, and fearlessly let fly
+hundreds of sharp arrows, of which every one found its mark, until the
+ground was choked with the fallen.
+
+Presently there descended upon him great hosts of the smaller winged
+people, who also had been provided with sharp and poisonous weapons.
+Against these his Elder Brother had forgotten to warn him; but now he
+was told in haste to strike two flints together and to catch the spark
+that should come in the dry fallen leaves. Soon a great cloud of smoke
+and flames arose toward heaven, not only driving off the little winged
+warriors, but forcing the whole body of the enemy to retreat in
+confusion, for they had never seen fire before, and to this day it is
+feared by all and used by man only.
+
+Thus the animals were convinced that Man is their master. When they sued
+for peace, all agreed to give him of their flesh for food and their
+skins for clothing, while he on his side promised never to kill any
+wantonly. The Boy Man further agreed that they might keep their weapons
+to use in their own defence. This was the first treaty made upon earth.
+
+
+
+
+SEVENTEENTH EVENING
+
+THE BELOVED OF THE SUN
+
+
+
+
+SEVENTEENTH EVENING
+
+
+"Grandfather, is not the night beautiful after the long storm?" whispers
+Tanagela shyly. "The moon always seems to me like a beautiful woman, for
+she often hides her round, shining face with a blanket of cloud, and
+sometimes she even runs away from us altogether, as if she were tired or
+displeased. But to-night she smiles and uncovers her face, so that all
+the young men are out, each playing upon his flute near the home of the
+loved one!"
+
+The little maid does not often make so long a speech, and she too hides
+her face as she comes to the end. But Grandfather smiles indulgently
+upon his favorite, as he answers:
+
+"And did you not know, then, that she is a woman, my granddaughter?
+Truly it is time that I told you of these things!"
+
+
+THE BELOVED OF THE SUN
+
+There was once a man and his wife and two children who had gone away
+from the rest of the tribe and were living by themselves. One day the
+man went out hunting as usual, but evening came and he did not return.
+The next day his wife went to look for him, and neither did she come
+back to the lodge.
+
+Thus it came about that the young brother and sister were left alone,
+but they were not unhappy. The boy was a strong and well-grown lad, and
+he brought home abundance of meat, while the girl cooked his food,
+tanned the skins and made all of their moccasins and clothing.
+
+They had been living thus for many moons, when very early one morning,
+soon after her brother had left her for the hunt, the girl's eyes were
+dazzled by a sudden flash of light, and at the same instant a tall and
+beautiful young man entered the lodge. She thought at first that her
+brother had come back, so great was the likeness; but he did not act
+like him, for his manner was that of a suitor. He remained for some
+time, but left before the brother returned.
+
+Now the young man saw at once that his sister seemed to be troubled and
+embarrassed about something. He questioned her, and she hung her head in
+silence. Three times this happened, and on the third day she told him
+all.
+
+"To-morrow," said he, "I will set out as usual early in the morning, but
+I shall not go far. If your visitor comes, keep him until I return."
+
+Accordingly the next day the brother went a little way from home and hid
+himself in a hollow tree from which he could watch their dwelling. Soon
+after the girl's lover appeared, he returned to the lodge and at once
+fell upon the stranger, for he was very angry.
+
+For some time they wrestled together in silence, and neither was able to
+gain the mastery over the other. Finally, however, the brother felt that
+he was being overcome, and he cried out:
+
+"Sister, help, help!"
+
+The girl did not know what to do, but she seized her axe and was about
+to strike one of the young men when he cried out:
+
+"Take care, sister!"
+
+Then she raised her axe against the other, but he too exclaimed: "Take
+care, sister!"
+
+She became more and more bewildered, for the two looked so much alike
+that it was impossible to tell which one was really her brother.
+
+At last, however, she made up her mind to strike at the stranger, but
+like a flash of light he eluded her and spoke:
+
+"My friend, do not try to resist me any longer! I came not to harm you
+or this maiden, but to make her my wife! Know that I am the Sun, and she
+shall be the Moon and rule over the night if she will come with me!"
+
+"Upon this the maiden yielded and went with him," said Grandfather; "but
+you see that she will not shine every night, for she was only a mortal
+maiden and is soon wearied. You know we call the Sun our Grandfather and
+the Moon Grandmother, and we also believe that the Stars are their
+children. Some time I shall tell you how a Star, too, loved an earthly
+maid."
+
+
+
+
+EIGHTEENTH EVENING
+
+WOOD-CHOPPER AND BERRY-PICKER
+
+
+
+
+EIGHTEENTH EVENING
+
+
+"A long time ago," says the old story-teller, "man was nearer the animal
+people than he is to-day; they even spoke the same language and seemed
+to understand one another perfectly. Sometimes he loved and married
+among them, but his children were not so good and noble as the first
+man. There was something of the animal in them.
+
+"There are many stories of this sort, but some of them are long and hard
+to understand. Perhaps you have heard of Tidoona and Tankadoona, the
+Indoor One and the Outdoor One, in which the little boy is half-brother
+to a Bear cub and they meet and play together in secret. To-night,
+however, I will tell you another story."
+
+
+WOOD-CHOPPER AND BERRY-PICKER
+
+In the old days, when men and animals spoke one language, a young man
+who had grown tired of living alone set out to look for a wife. He had
+not travelled far when he came to a stream of clear water which had been
+dammed to make a small, round pond. On the shore of the pond was a neat,
+dome-shaped lodge, and just outside the lodge a pretty woman was busily
+chopping wood.
+
+The young man stood for some time watching her from behind a tree. Being
+pleased with her looks and especially with her industry, he presently
+showed himself, and the girl, whose name was Beaver-woman, received him
+so kindly that in a short time they had decided to marry and go to
+house-keeping.
+
+When their little boy came, the proud father wished to take him back and
+show him to his own people, but to this his wife would not consent.
+
+"If you must return," said she, "very well; but we cannot go with you!"
+
+So the young man, who had a great longing to see again the faces of his
+kinsfolk, left them behind and journeyed to his father's village. He
+made them a short visit, and then hastened back to his own home.
+
+Alas, there was no home there! The lodge was destroyed, the dam broken,
+the pond itself gone, the singing brook was only a thin trickle of
+water, and his wife and son were nowhere to be found!
+
+The unhappy young man lay upon the ground, mourning for his lost wife
+and little boy, until a handsome young woman dressed all in black came
+out of the woods. She supposed that he must be faint for want of food,
+so she brought him sweet roots and berries. When he had eaten, she
+kindly combed his hair and washed his face, and after he was refreshed,
+she comforted him with loving words and caresses, so that he soon forgot
+the Beaver-woman and took her to be his wife.
+
+Together they went to look for a home. The young man chose a beautiful
+open spot overlooking much country, but his wife, whose name was
+Berry-Picker, laughed at him, saying:
+
+"Our people never live in such an open place as that!"
+
+She chose a sheltered spot at the foot of the hill, and there they began
+to hollow out a comfortable dwelling under the upturned roots of an old
+fallen tree.
+
+When Berry-Picker, the Bear wife, sent her husband out to look for
+bedding, he brought in much dry grass; but the Bear wife reproved him,
+saying:
+
+"Why, husband! you expose our home to the eyes of all!"
+
+All about their lodge were bare spots where he had pulled the grass, so
+they had to find a new place in which to live.
+
+At last the pair were snug and warm for the winter, and as it was now
+time to go to sleep, they did so, and slept until they were aroused by
+the barking of a Dog and the footsteps of a hunter on the crisp snow.
+
+The Bear wife struck the roof of her house, and a Partridge flew up out
+of the snow with a great whirring of wings. The Dog followed the
+Partridge and the hunter followed the Dog.
+
+When the hunter came for the second time, she started a Rabbit, which
+drew the Dog away, and he drew away the hunter.
+
+But when he persisted, and came back for the third time, she left her
+home and ran for her life, leaving her husband to follow as best he
+could.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+He ran on and on, following his wife's tracks in the deep snow, until he
+came to a little hut where lived an old Bear.
+
+"Where are you going, my son?" inquired the old man.
+
+"Oh," he replied, "I am only travelling for pleasure!"
+
+"Do not try to deceive me," said the old Bear. "I know well whom you
+seek! Berry-Picker passed this way only yesterday, on her way to rejoin
+her people."
+
+"And where do her people live?" asked the young husband.
+
+"They live not far away, my son; but be on your guard; they are a
+deceitful people and will give you much trouble!"
+
+Thanking the old man, he hurried on, and soon came to the village of the
+Bears. It was a large village, and the people seemed to have plenty to
+eat and to be very merry, for they were singing and dancing. As the
+stranger drew near, every young woman in the great camp came running to
+meet him. They all looked alike, for every one was dressed in glossy
+black and all were plump and handsome, and they all crowded about him
+as if to embrace him, crying:
+
+"Welcome home, my husband!"
+
+Now the young man became very angry, for he knew that the Bears were
+trying to deceive him, and that if he did not know his own wife, they
+would take his life. He took no notice of any of the young women, but
+turned his back on the village and went home to his own country.
+
+This story is told for a warning to those who wish to marry among
+strangers.
+
+
+
+
+NINETEENTH EVENING
+
+THE SON-IN-LAW
+
+
+
+
+NINETEENTH EVENING
+
+
+"Tell us, grandfather, who is Chanotedah?" bursts out Waola even before
+the children are fairly seated. "Uncle told me to-day when I was hunting
+to beware of the Little Man of the Woods, for if I should meet him I
+might lose my way and never smell the camp fire again! But when I asked
+where he was to be found, and how I should know him, he only laughed at
+me and went on making arrows."
+
+"This Chanotedah is indeed a mischievous fellow," explains the good old
+man. "He is no larger than a three-year-old child, and is covered with
+hair. His home is in a hollow tree, and his weapons are the brilliantly
+colored feathers of gay birds. He delights in confusing the lone hunter
+who is so unlucky as to come upon him in the depths of the forest. That
+you may know why this little man has a grudge against our race, I will
+tell you a story."
+
+
+THE SON-IN-LAW
+
+Once upon a time there was a young girl whose parents had been taken by
+the enemy, and who lived alone with her elder brother in the forest,
+without kinsfolk or neighbors. The young man was a clever hunter who
+provided more than enough for their needs, and the sister kept his lodge
+in order and his moccasins well mended, so that for a long time they
+lived happily together without other company.
+
+A day came, however, when the young man wished to go upon a journey and
+to see something of the world. He therefore called upon the Little Man
+of the Woods, Chanotedah, and begged him to look after his sister during
+his absence. He then took his bow and quiver full of arrows, and set out
+to discover strange countries.
+
+The traveller met with no adventures until the third day, when he saw
+several boys playing outside the entrance to their dwelling, which
+appeared to be merely a cave in the side of a hill.
+
+"Here comes our brother-in-law!" they cried, and all ran back into the
+cave.
+
+The young man was curious to know what this meant, and he went boldly
+in. Opposite the door of the cave there sat a handsome young woman,
+while her father and mother were seated upon either side of the fire.
+The old man at once arose and greeted the stranger.
+
+"Ho, my son-in-law!" he exclaimed; whereupon the old wife served him
+with food and waited upon him hospitably.
+
+It appeared, however, that the young woman was kindly disposed toward
+this good-looking youth, for she soon contrived to warn him secretly of
+her father's intentions toward him.
+
+"When my father takes you hunting with him," she said, "you must take
+care always to keep behind him. If he tells you to follow any animal, do
+not do so, but shoot it from where you stand!"
+
+Next day the old man invited his guest to hunt, and by and by they saw a
+white Marten in the wood.
+
+"Chase it, chase it, son-in-law!" exclaimed the old man, but the youth
+stood still and killed the creature with an arrow from his quiver. Alas,
+it was no marten, but one of the boys whom he had seen playing outside
+the cave!
+
+[Illustration: DO NOT SHOOT A WHITE DEER WHEN YOU SEE HIM COMING TOWARD
+YOU]
+
+The next day a white Magpie flew across the path, and the old man again
+called on his guest to follow. He stopped and aimed an arrow instead,
+which pierced the second boy to the heart.
+
+"Do not shoot a white Deer when you see him coming toward you," begged
+the girl of her lover on the third morning, for she wished to save her
+youngest brother's life. The young man spared the Deer, and the last of
+the boys came home unhurt; but he himself remembered her warning and
+took care to keep behind, so that the old man had no chance to kill him.
+
+"Ah, my son-in-law, you have beaten me! Take my daughter; she is now
+your wife," he said to the young man, who thereupon took his wife home
+to his own lodge, and his brother-in-law whose life he had spared he
+took with them to be husband to his sister.
+
+The Little Man of the Woods had guarded the girl safely, but meanwhile
+he had fallen in love with her and desired to marry her. Being refused,
+he went away angry and hid in a hollow tree, where he still lives, and
+all who walk alone in the forest fear to meet him, for he wishes nothing
+so much as to do a mischief to the descendants of the sister and
+brother.
+
+
+
+
+TWENTIETH EVENING
+
+THE COMRADES
+
+
+
+
+TWENTIETH EVENING
+
+
+"There is another bad character of whom we have all heard, and some of
+us have met him," begins the teacher. "His name tells you what he is. He
+has two faces; one he shows at first when he wishes to be agreeable and
+has some object to gain; but as soon as he is found out he turns the
+ugly, scowling face upon you.
+
+"Remember, children, you should not keep two faces--a pleasant one for
+strangers and a cross face to show when you are at home! Try to imitate
+the heroes of old, the great and good and helpful, such as the Stone
+Boy, the Star Boy, the Avenger, he who wears the White Plume, and he who
+shot the Red Eagle! If I should be spared to live another winter, I
+will tell you of them all. To-night we will hear the pleasant story of
+Mashtinna and his brother-friend."
+
+
+THE COMRADES
+
+Mashtinna, the Rabbit, was a handsome young man, and, moreover, of a
+kind disposition. One day, when he was hunting, he heard a child crying
+bitterly, and made all haste in the direction of the sound.
+
+On the further side of the wood he found one tormenting a baby boy with
+whips and pinches, laughing heartily meanwhile and humming a mother's
+lullaby.
+
+"What do you mean by abusing this innocent child?" demanded the Rabbit;
+but the other showed a smiling face and replied pleasantly:
+
+"You do not know what you are talking about! The child is fretful, and I
+am merely trying to quiet him."
+
+Mashtinna was not deceived, for he had guessed that this was
+Double-Face, who delights in teasing the helpless ones.
+
+"Give the boy to me!" he insisted; so that Double-Face became angry, and
+showed the other side of his face, which was black and scowling.
+
+"The boy is mine," he declared, "and if you say another word I shall
+treat you as I have treated him!"
+
+Upon this, Mashtinna fitted an arrow to the string, and shot the wicked
+one through the heart.
+
+He then took the child on his arm and followed the trail to a small and
+poor teepee. There lived an old man and his wife, both of them blind and
+nearly helpless, for all of their children and grandchildren, even to
+the smallest and last, had been lured away by wicked Double-Face.
+
+"Ho, grandfather, grandmother! I have brought you back the child!"
+exclaimed the Rabbit, as he stood in the doorway.
+
+But the poor, blind old people had so often been deceived by that
+heartless Double-Face that they no longer believed anything; therefore
+they both cried out:
+
+"Ugh, you liar! we don't believe a word you say! Get away with you, do!"
+
+Since they refused to take the child, and it was now almost night, the
+kind-hearted young man wrapped the boy in his own blanket and lay down
+with him to sleep. The next morning, when he awoke, he found to his
+surprise that the child had grown up during the night and was now a
+handsome young man, so much like him that they might have been twin
+brothers.
+
+"My friend, we are now comrades for life!" exclaimed the strange youth.
+"We shall each go different ways in the world, doing all the good we
+can; but if either is ever in need of help let him call upon the other
+and he will come instantly to his aid!"
+
+The other agreed, and they set out in opposite directions. Not long
+after, the Rabbit heard a loud groaning and crying as of some person in
+great pain. When he reached the spot, he found a man with his body
+wedged tightly in the forks of a tree, which the wind swayed to and fro.
+He could not by any means get away, and was in great misery.
+
+"I will take your place, brother!" exclaimed the generous young man,
+upon which the tree immediately parted, and the tree-bound was free.
+Mashtinna took his place and the tree closed upon him like a vise and
+pinched him severely.
+
+The pain was worse than he had supposed, but he bore it as long as he
+could without crying out. Sweat beaded his forehead and his veins
+swelled to bursting; at last he could endure it no longer, and called
+loudly upon his comrade to help him. At once the young man appeared and
+struck the tree so that it parted and Mashtinna was free.
+
+He kept on his journey until he spied a small wigwam quite by itself on
+the edge of a wood. Lifting the door-flap, he saw no one but an old
+blind man, who greeted him thankfully.
+
+"Ho, my grandson! you see me, I am old and poor. All the day I see no
+one. When I wish to drink, this raw-hide lariat leads me to the stream
+near by. When I need dry sticks for my fire, I follow this other rope
+and feel my way among the trees. I have food enough, for these bags are
+packed with dried meat for my use. But alas, my grandson, I am all
+alone here, and I am blind!"
+
+"Take my eyes, grandfather!" at once exclaimed the kind-hearted young
+man. "You shall go where you will, and I will remain here in your
+place."
+
+"Ho, ho, my grandson, you are very good!" replied the old man, and he
+gladly took the eyes of the Rabbit and went out into the world. The
+youth stayed behind, and as he was hungry, he ate of the dried meat in
+the bags.
+
+This made him very thirsty, so he took hold of the raw-hide rope and
+followed it to the stream; but as he stooped to the brink, the rope
+broke and Mashtinna fell in.
+
+The water was cold and the bank slippery, but after a hard struggle he
+got out again and made his way back to the teepee, dripping wet and very
+miserable. Wishing to make a fire and dry his clothes, he seized the
+other rope and went to the wood for sticks.
+
+However, when he began to gather the sticks he lost the rope, and being
+quite blind he did nothing but stumble over fallen logs, and bruise
+himself against the trunks of trees, and scratch his face among the
+briers and brambles, until at last he could bear it no longer, and cried
+out to his comrade to come to his aid.
+
+Instantly the youth appeared and gave him back his eyes, saying at the
+same time:
+
+"Friend, be not so rash in future! It is right to help those who are in
+trouble, but one must also consider whether he himself is able to hold
+out to the end."
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-FIRST EVENING
+
+THE LAUGH-MAKER
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-FIRST EVENING
+
+
+"You remember the young man who married among the Bear people," begins
+Grandfather. "Now to us the Bear seems at times almost human; he can
+stand and even walk erect; he will cry and groan very like a man when
+hurt, and there are those who say that he laughs. In the old stories the
+Bears are a powerful nation; and there is a young man, perhaps the same
+one I told you of before, who is said to have been living among them at
+one time with his wife, Woshpee, and their little son."
+
+
+THE LAUGH-MAKER
+
+The village of the Bears was a large one, and the people were well-fed
+and prosperous. Upon certain days, a herald went the round of the
+lodges, announcing in a loud voice that the time had come to "go
+a-laughing." Not a Bear was left in the village at such times, for every
+one went, old and young, sick and well, the active and the lame. Only
+the stranger remained at home, although his wife, Woshpee, always went
+with her kinsfolk, for somehow he did not feel inclined to "go
+a-laughing;" and he kept with him his little son, who was half Bear and
+half human.
+
+One day, however, a curiosity seized him to know what this laughing
+business might be. He took his boy and followed the Bears at a distance,
+not choosing to be seen. Their trail led to the shore of the Great
+Water, and when he had come as near as he could without exposing
+himself, he climbed a tall pine from whose bushy top he could observe
+all that took place.
+
+The gathering of the Bears was on a deep bay that jutted inland. Its
+rocky shores were quite black with them, and as soon as all had become
+quiet, an old Bear advanced to the water's edge and called in a loud
+voice:
+
+"E-ha-we-cha-ye-la, e-ha-un-he-pee lo! (Laugh-maker, we are come to
+laugh!)"
+
+When he had called four times, a small object appeared in the midst of
+the water and began to swim toward the shore. By and by the strange
+creature sprawled and clambered out upon a solitary rock that stood
+partly above the water.
+
+The Laugh-maker was hairless and wrinkled like a new-born child; it had
+the funniest feet, or hands, or flippers, with which it tried to walk,
+but only tumbled and flopped about. In the water it was graceful enough,
+but on dry land so ungainly and ridiculous that the vast concourse of
+Bears was thrown into fits of hysterical laughter.
+
+"Ha, ha, ha! Waugh, waugh!" they roared, lifting their ugly long muzzles
+and opening their gaping jaws. Some of them could no longer hold on to
+the boughs of the trees, or the rocks on which they had perched, and
+came tumbling down on the heads of the crowd, adding much to the fun.
+Every motion of the little "Laugh-maker" produced fresh roars of
+immoderate laughter.
+
+At last the Bears grew weak and helpless with laughing. Hundreds of them
+sprawled out upon the sand, quite unable to rise. Then the old man again
+advanced and cried out:
+
+"E-ha-we-cha-ye-la, wan-na e-ha un-ta-pe ktay do! (Laugh-maker, we are
+almost dead with laughing!)" Upon this the little creature swam back
+into deep water and disappeared.
+
+Now the stranger was not at all amused and in fact could see nothing to
+laugh at. When all the Bears had got up and dispersed to their homes he
+came down from the tree with his little son, and the child wished to
+imitate his great-grandfather Bear. He went out alone on the sandy beach
+and began to call in his piping voice:
+
+"Laugh-maker, we are come to laugh!"
+
+When he had called four times, the little creature again showed its
+smooth black head above the water.
+
+"Ha, ha, ha! Why don't you laugh, papa? It is so funny!" the boy cried
+out breathlessly.
+
+But his father looked on soberly while the thing went through all its
+usual antics, and the little boy laughed harder and harder, until at
+last he rolled and rolled on the sandy beach, almost dead with
+laughter.
+
+"Papa," he gasped, "if you do not stop this funny thing I shall die!"
+
+Then the father picked up his bow and strung it. He gave one more look
+at his boy, who was gasping for breath; then he fitted a sharp arrow to
+the bow and pierced the little Laugh-maker to the heart. He went out and
+took the skin, and they returned in silence to the camp of the Bears.
+
+Now the next time that the herald called upon the Bears to "go
+a-laughing," the skin of the Laugh-maker was almost dry, but they knew
+nothing of it. They went away as usual, and left the young man alone
+with his son. But he, knowing that his wife's kinsfolk would kill him
+when they discovered what he had done, took the skin for a quiver and
+went homeward with his child.
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-SECOND EVENING
+
+THE RUNAWAYS
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-SECOND EVENING
+
+
+"Some say," remarks Grandfather, "that the hero of the story I am about
+to tell you is the same as the kind-hearted young man of whom you heard
+not long ago--Mashtinna, the Rabbit. You will remember that he was
+uncommonly handsome as well as generous. This time he falls in love, and
+there is a wicked old woman in the way; but you will learn some day that
+true love is able to defy and to outwit all its enemies!"
+
+
+THE RUNAWAYS
+
+There was once a young man who had journeyed a long way from home in
+search of adventure. One day he came to a strange village on the border
+of a great wood, but while yet some distance from the lodges, he
+happened to glance upward. In the boughs of a tree just above his head
+he saw a light scaffold, and on the scaffold a maiden sitting at her
+needle-work.
+
+Instead of boldly entering the village, as he had intended, the youth
+walked on a little way, then turned and again passed under the tree. He
+did this several times, and each time he looked up, for the girl was the
+prettiest that he had ever seen.
+
+He did not show himself to the people, but for several days he lingered
+on the borders of the wood, and at last he ventured to speak with the
+maiden and to ask her to be his wife. She did not seem to be at all
+unwilling; however, she said to him:
+
+"You must be very careful, for my grandmother does not wish me to
+marry. She is a very wicked old woman, and has thus far succeeded in
+killing every one of my suitors."
+
+"In that case, we must run away," the young man replied. "To-night, when
+your grandmother is asleep, pull up some of the tent-pins and come out.
+I shall be waiting for you!"
+
+The girl did as he had said, and that same night they fled together and
+by morning were far from the village.
+
+However, the maiden kept looking over her shoulder as if fearing
+pursuit, and at last her lover said to her:
+
+"Why do you continue to look behind you? They will not have missed you
+until daylight, and it is quite certain now that no one can overtake
+us!"
+
+"Ah," she replied, "my grandmother has powerful magic! She can cover a
+whole day's journey at one step, and I am convinced that she is upon
+our trail."
+
+"In that case, you shall see that I too know something of magic,"
+returned the young man. Forthwith he threw down one of his mittens, and
+lo! their trail was changed to the trail of a Buffalo. He threw down the
+other mitten, and it became the carcass of a Buffalo lying at the end of
+the trail.
+
+"She will follow thus far and no farther," he declared; but the maiden
+shook her head, and ceased not from time to time to glance over her
+shoulder as they hastened onward.
+
+In truth it was not long till she perceived the old woman in the
+distance, coming on with great strides and shaking her cane and her gray
+head at the runaways.
+
+"Now it is my turn!" the girl exclaimed, and threw down her comb, which
+became a thick forest behind the fleeing ones, so that the angry old
+woman was held back by the dense underbrush.
+
+When she had come out of the forest at last and was again gaining upon
+them, the girl threw her awl over her shoulder and it became a chain of
+mountains with high peaks and sharp precipices, so that the grandmother
+was kept back longer than before. Nevertheless, her magic was strong,
+and she still struggled on after the lovers.
+
+In the meantime, they had come to the bank of a river both wide and
+deep, and here they stood for a while doubting how they should cross,
+for there was neither boat nor ford. However, there were two Cranes near
+by, and to these the young man addressed himself.
+
+"My friends," said he, "I beg of you to stand on the opposite banks of
+this river and stretch your necks across, so that we may cross in
+safety! Only do this, and I will give to each of you a fine ornament for
+your breast, and long fringes on your leggings, so that you will
+hereafter be called the handsomest of birds!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Cranes were willing to oblige, and they stood thus with their beaks
+touching over the stream, so that the lovers crossed on their long necks
+in safety.
+
+"Now," exclaimed the young man, "I must ask of you one more favor! If an
+old woman should come down to the river and seek your help, place your
+heads together once more as if to allow her to cross, but when she is
+half way over you must draw back and let her fall in mid-stream. Do
+this, and I promise you that you shall never be in want!"
+
+In a little while the old woman came down to the river, quite out of
+breath, and more angry than before. As soon as she noticed the two
+Cranes, she began to scold and order them about.
+
+"Come here, you long-necks, you ungainly creatures, come and help me
+over this river!" she cried.
+
+The two Cranes again stood beak to beak, but when the wicked grandmother
+had crossed half way they pulled in their necks and into the water she
+went, screaming out threats and abuse as she whirled through the air.
+The current swept her quickly away and she was drowned, for there is no
+magic so strong that it will prevail against true love.
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-THIRD EVENING
+
+THE GIRL WHO MARRIED THE STAR
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-THIRD EVENING
+
+
+"Ah, here is our little Humming-bird, always the first to raise the
+door-flap!" is the old teacher's pleasant greeting.
+
+"That is because I do not want to lose one word of your good stories,
+Grandfather," murmurs the little maiden, with her pretty, upward glance
+and bashful smile.
+
+"I have one for you to-night that ought to please you," he answers
+thoughtfully. "You know the shining Star people in the heavens above
+us--you have gazed upon them and doubtless dreamed that you were among
+them. We believe them to be a higher race than ours. Listen, then, to my
+story."
+
+
+THE GIRL WHO MARRIED THE STAR
+
+There were once two sisters who lived alone in an uninhabited place.
+This was a long time ago, when the tribes upon earth were few, and the
+animal people were friendly to man. The name of one of the girls was
+Earth, and the other was called Water.
+
+All their food was brought to them by their animal friends. The Bears
+supplied them with nuts, berries and wild turnips, and the Bees brought
+combs dripping with honey. They ate no flesh, for that would be to take
+life. They dwelt in a lodge made of birch-bark, and their beds were mats
+woven of rushes.
+
+One clear, summer night the girls lay awake upon their beds, looking up
+through the smoke-hole of their wigwam and telling one another all their
+thoughts.
+
+"Sister," said the Earth, "I have seen a handsome young man in my
+dreams, and it seemed to me that he came from up yonder!"
+
+"I too have seen a man in my dreams," replied her sister, "and he was a
+great brave."
+
+"Do you not think these bright stars above us are the sky men of whom we
+have dreamed?" suggested the Earth.
+
+"If that is true, sister, and it may be true," said the Water, "I choose
+that brightest Star for my husband!"
+
+"And I," declared her sister, "choose for my husband that little
+twinkling Star!"
+
+By and by the sisters slept; and when they awoke, they found themselves
+in the sky! The husband of the elder sister who had chosen the bright
+star was an old warrior with a shining name, but the husband of the
+younger girl was a fine-looking young man, who had as yet no great
+reputation.
+
+The Star men were kind to their wives, who lived very happily in their
+new home. One day they went out to dig wild turnips, and the old warrior
+said to his wife:
+
+"When you are digging, you must not hit the ground too hard!"
+
+The younger man also warned his wife, saying:
+
+"Do not hit the ground too hard!"
+
+However, the Earth forgot, and in her haste she struck the ground so
+hard with the sharp-pointed stick with which she dug turnips, that the
+floor of the sky was broken and she fell through.
+
+Two very old people found the poor girl lying in the meadow.
+
+They kindly made for her a little wigwam of pine boughs, and brought
+ferns for her bed. The old woman nursed her as well as she could, but
+she did nothing but wail and cry.
+
+"Let me go to him!" she begged. "I cannot live without my husband!"
+
+Night came, and the stars appeared in the sky as usual. Only the little
+twinkling Star did not appear, for he was now a widower and had painted
+his face quite black.
+
+The poor wife waited for him a long time, but he did not come, because
+he could not. At last she slept, and dreamed she saw a tiny red Star in
+the sky that had not been there before.
+
+"Ah!" said she, "that is Red Star, my son!"
+
+In the morning she found at her side a pretty little boy, a Star Boy,
+who afterward grew to be a handsome young man and had many adventures.
+His guides by night through the pathless woods were the Star children of
+his mother's sister, his cousins in the sky.
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-FOURTH EVENING
+
+NORTH WIND AND STAR BOY
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-FOURTH EVENING
+
+
+"Hun, hun, hay! Old man Wazeya, the North Wind, is again on the
+war-path! You are brave children to come out to-night! See, he shakes
+his downy feather robe, and the little snow-flakes fly fast and faster!
+He gives his war-whoop, and cowards seek the safe shelter of their own
+wigwams. You are no cowards, I am sure of that, so I shall tell you of
+the battle between Wazeya and one of our great heroes, the son of a
+mortal maiden and a Star."
+
+
+NORTH WIND AND STAR BOY
+
+In the very old days at the beginning of things, Star Boy went about the
+world as a champion, defending all feeble folk against the attacks of
+their enemies.
+
+The champion was so strong that he could not bend his bow of wood
+without breaking it, therefore he armed himself with a bone bow, a bone
+knife and a stone war-club.
+
+One day, he came to the village of the Frogs, who poured out of their
+lodges to meet him and set before him food, but no water. "He who goes
+to the water," said they, "never returns. A great warrior lies there who
+has swallowed many of us alive, and now we are perishing of thirst!"
+
+Star Boy himself was so thirsty that after he had eaten, he went down to
+the water, and was instantly swallowed by Tamahay, the Pickerel. But
+with his bone knife he slashed the Pickerel in the gills and escaped;
+after which he warned the big fish, saying: "Be careful how you
+wantonly destroy this people, for some day they will be used to destroy
+you!"
+
+[Illustration: STAR BOY ATTACKED BY HINHAN, THE OWL.
+
+_Page 215_]
+
+He then went on his way, as far as another village of Little People, who
+complained that they had no fire-wood.
+
+"We dare not go to the wood any more," they said, "for there a fierce
+warrior lives who swoops down from above and devours us!"
+
+Star Boy at once went to the wood, where he was attacked by Hinhan, the
+Owl. Him he easily conquered with his stone war-club. "Because of your
+cruelty," he said to the Owl, "the sun shall blind you hereafter, so
+that you can hunt only in the dark, when the Mouse people are advised to
+take to their holes and hiding-places."
+
+Now Star Boy travelled northward, until he had reached the very
+northernmost country, and in that far land he found a people in great
+distress. That was because they feared Wazeya, the North Wind, who drove
+away the buffalo herds so that they had no meat. "And when he points his
+finger at one of us," said they, "that man dies!"
+
+"Come, let us hunt the buffalo!" said Star Boy to them; and although
+they were starving, they were afraid and unwilling to go. However, he
+made some of the men go out with him, and upon the open plain they met
+with North Wind, who at once challenged the champion to do battle. The
+two rushed upon one another with great fury, and in the first onset Star
+Boy broke the bow of North Wind; but in the second, Star Boy was
+overthrown and lay as one dead.
+
+However, after a time he got up again, and they met for the third bout,
+when lo! neither could prevail against the other, so that in the midst
+of the fight they were obliged to sit upon a snowbank to rest. Star Boy
+sat upon his calf-skin and fanned himself with an eagle-wing, and
+immediately the snow began to melt and the North Wind was forced to
+retreat. Before he went away, he made a treaty of peace with Star Boy,
+promising to come to earth for half the year only, and to give timely
+warning of his approach, so that the people might prepare for his coming
+and lay up food against the day of scarcity. By this means the winter
+and summer were established among us.
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-FIFTH EVENING
+
+THE TEN VIRGINS
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-FIFTH EVENING
+
+
+The strong sun of March still hovers over the deep blue lake, and last
+night's snow flurry has quite vanished from the pleasant, brown face of
+our Grandmother Earth, when the children arrive at Smoky Day's wide-open
+doorway. There is a tang in the air and a stir in the blood to-night
+that moves the old man to tell a tale of youth and adventure. And this
+is the tale:
+
+
+THE TEN VIRGINS
+
+There were once two brothers who loved one maiden, and it appeared that
+the younger brother was the favorite. One day, the jealous elder invited
+his brother to go hunting with him upon an island in the great lake, a
+day's journey in canoes from their village.
+
+No sooner had they touched shore than the elder said:
+
+"Do you go to the other end of the island, and I will drive the Deer
+toward you!"
+
+The other obeyed; but although he waited a long time on the further
+side, no Deer appeared, nor did he see anything of his brother. At last
+he returned through the woods to the spot where they had landed; and
+behold! the canoe with his brother was almost out of sight on the blue
+waters of the lake.
+
+The young man, thus abandoned, wandered about the island for many days,
+living upon the game which he found there in abundance. He had grown
+very lonely and tired of his solitary life, when one day a strange old
+man with long, white hair appeared on the shore.
+
+"My son," said he, "you look unhappy! Tell me if there is anything you
+wish for."
+
+"I want nothing except to cross the water to the mainland," replied the
+young man, "but I have no boat nor the means of making one."
+
+"Get upon my back, and I will take you over in safety," returned the
+patriarch. Accordingly he took him upon his back and swam across the
+lake with his burden.
+
+Now the young man was grateful to his rescuer and he no longer cared to
+return to his own people and to the brother who had betrayed him,
+therefore he went with the old man to his wigwam to hunt for him.
+
+One day, when he was out hunting as usual, he thought he heard the
+far-off, musical sound of girls' laughter from the depths of the forest.
+He turned in the direction of the sound and soon came upon a broad
+trail, which he followed until he was overtaken by nine young men, all
+running eagerly along the same trail.
+
+They at once made him join their company, saying that they had needed
+just one more to complete their number. The ten hastened on, and
+presently they overtook ten beautiful young damsels. Night fell, and
+they all went into camp together on the shore of the great lake.
+
+The girls were very friendly and chatted pleasantly with the young men
+during the evening, until each party retired to sleep under a hurriedly
+made arbor of green boughs.
+
+Very early in the morning the youths awoke; but lo! their companions had
+vanished, and they could see only the flash of a distant paddle where
+lake met sky at the far-off horizon line.
+
+[Illustration: SHE TOOK UP HANDSFUL OF ASHES TO THROW INTO THEIR FACES.
+
+_Page 227_]
+
+There was no boat, and they were about to go back in despair, when the
+young man who had last joined the party spied a little mussel shell at
+the edge of the water, and invited them to step in. At first they were
+doubtful and hung back; but in the end one ventured and stepped into the
+shell, which bore up his weight. Then another and another followed,
+until the ten men stood upon the shell, which had become a fine large
+canoe, and carried them all in safety to the opposite shore.
+
+There they beheld the great white wigwam in which dwelt the ten virgins
+with their grandmother, who was a wicked old witch.
+
+As soon as she saw the young men she took up handfuls of ashes to throw
+into their faces, and one after another fell senseless at her feet.
+
+Last of all came the fortunate younger brother. He had borrowed the
+weapons of the old man with whom he lived, and it chanced that this man
+was a greater wonder-worker even than the witch. Therefore he had merely
+turned toward her his magic shield to keep off the shower of ashes, when
+the old woman lost all her power to hurt, and at once each lusty young
+man sprang quickly up to claim his bride.
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-SIXTH EVENING
+
+THE MAGIC ARROWS
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-SIXTH EVENING
+
+
+The wise and old heads among the Indians love children's company, and
+none is more sorry than Smoky Day when the village breaks up for the
+spring hunt, and story-telling is over for the season.
+
+"I hope," he says kindly, "that you have listened so well to these tales
+of our people, and repeated them so often that you will never forget
+them!"
+
+"We have, grandfather, we have!" they reply in chorus.
+
+"We must not only remember and repeat," he continues, "but we must
+consider and follow their teachings, for it is so that these legends
+that have come down to us from the old time are kept alive by each new
+generation. There is much to learn from the story of one who was so
+modest that he took the form of a ragged and homeless little boy, and
+did his good deeds in secret."
+
+
+THE MAGIC ARROWS
+
+There was once a young man who wanted to go on a journey. His mother
+provided him with sacks of dried meat and pairs of moccasins, but his
+father said to him:
+
+"Here, my son, are four magic arrows. When you are in need, shoot one of
+them!"
+
+The young man went forth alone, and hunted in the forest for many days.
+Usually he was successful, but a day came when he was hungry and could
+not find meat. Then he sent forth one of the magic arrows, and at the
+end of the day there lay a fat Bear with the arrow in his side. The
+hunter cut out the tongue for his meal, and of the body of the Bear he
+made a thank-offering to the Great Mystery.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Again he was in need, and again in the morning he shot a magic arrow,
+and at nightfall beside his camp-fire he found an Elk lying with the
+arrow in his heart. Once more he ate the tongue and offered up the body
+as a sacrifice. The third time he killed a Moose with his arrow, and the
+fourth time a Buffalo.
+
+After the fourth arrow had been spent, the young man came one day out of
+the forest, and before him there lay a great circular village of skin
+lodges. At one side, and some little way from the rest of the people, he
+noticed a small and poor tent where an old couple lived all alone. At
+the edge of the wood he took off his clothes and hid them in a hollow
+tree. Then, touching the top of his head with his staff, he turned
+himself into a little ragged boy and went toward the poor tent.
+
+The old woman saw him coming, and said to her old man: "Old man, let us
+keep this little boy for our own! He seems to be a fine, bright-eyed
+little fellow, and we are all alone."
+
+"What are you thinking of, old woman?" grumbled the old man. "We can
+hardly keep ourselves, and yet you talk of taking in a ragged little
+scamp from nobody knows where!"
+
+In the meantime the boy had come quite near, and the old wife beckoned
+to him to enter the lodge.
+
+"Sit down, my grandson, sit down!" she said, kindly; and, in spite of
+the old man's black looks, she handed him a small dish of parched corn,
+which was all the food they had.
+
+The boy ate and stayed on. By and by he said to the old woman:
+"Grandmother, I should like to have grandfather make me some arrows!"
+
+"You hear, my old man?" said she. "It will be very well for you to make
+some little arrows for the boy."
+
+"And why should I make arrows for a strange little ragged boy?" grumbled
+the old man.
+
+However, he made two or three, and the boy went hunting. In a short
+time he returned with several small birds. The old woman took them and
+pulled off the feathers, thanking him and praising him as she did so.
+She quickly made the little birds into soup, of which the old man ate
+gladly, and with the soft feathers she stuffed a small pillow.
+
+"You have done well, my grandson!" he said; for they were really very
+poor.
+
+Not long after, the boy said to his adopted grandmother: "Grandmother,
+when you see me at the edge of the wood yonder, you must call out: 'A
+Bear! there goes a Bear!'"
+
+This she did, and the boy again sent forth one of the magic arrows,
+which he had taken from the body of his game and kept by him. No sooner
+had he shot, than he saw the same Bear that he had offered up, lying
+before him with the arrow in his side!
+
+Now there was great rejoicing in the lodge of the poor old couple. While
+they were out skinning the Bear and cutting the meat in thin strips to
+dry, the boy sat alone in the lodge. In the pot on the fire was the
+Bear's tongue, which he wanted for himself.
+
+All at once a young girl stood in the doorway. She drew her robe
+modestly before her face as she said in a low voice:
+
+"I come to borrow the mortar of your grandmother!"
+
+The boy gave her the mortar, and also a piece of the tongue which he had
+cooked, and she went away.
+
+When all of the Bear meat was gone, the boy sent forth a second arrow
+and killed an Elk, and with the third and fourth he shot the Moose and
+the Buffalo as before, each time recovering his arrow.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Soon after, he heard that the people of the large village were in
+trouble. A great Red Eagle, it was said, flew over the village every
+day at dawn, and the people believed that it was a bird of evil omen,
+for they no longer had any success in hunting. None of their braves had
+been able to shoot the Eagle, and the chief had offered his only
+daughter in marriage to the man who should kill it.
+
+When the boy heard this, he went out early the next morning and lay in
+wait for the Red Eagle. At the touch of his magic arrow, it fell at his
+feet, and the boy pulled out his arrow and went home without speaking to
+any one.
+
+But the thankful people followed him to the poor little lodge, and when
+they had found him, they brought the chief's beautiful daughter to be
+his wife. Lo, she was the girl who had come to borrow his grandmother's
+mortar!
+
+Then he went back to the hollow tree where his clothes were hidden, and
+came back a handsome young man, richly dressed for his wedding.
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-SEVENTH EVENING
+
+THE GHOST WIFE
+
+
+
+
+TWENTY-SEVENTH EVENING
+
+
+On this last evening, the children are told to be especially quiet, and
+to listen reverently and earnestly, "for these are the greater things of
+which I am about to tell you," says their old teacher.
+
+"You have heard that the Great Mystery is everywhere. He is in the earth
+and the water, heat and cold, rocks and trees, sun and sky; and He is
+also in us. When the spirit departs, that too is a mystery, and
+therefore we do not speak aloud the name of the dead. There are wonders
+all about us, and within, but if we are quiet and obedient to the voice
+of the spirit, sometime we may understand these mysteries!"
+
+It is thus the old sage concludes his lessons, and over all the circle
+there is a hush of loving reverence.
+
+
+THE GHOST WIFE
+
+There was once a young man who loved to be alone, and who often stayed
+away from the camp for days at a time, when it was said that Wolves,
+Bears and other wild creatures joined him in his rovings.
+
+He was once seen with several Deer about him, petting and handling them;
+but when the Deer discovered the presence of a stranger, they snorted
+with fear and quickly vanished. It was supposed that he had learned
+their language. All the birds answered his call, and even those
+fairy-like creatures of the air, the butterflies, would come to him
+freely and alight upon his body.
+
+[Illustration: HE WAS ONCE SEEN WITH SEVERAL DEER ABOUT HIM, PETTING AND
+HANDLING THEM.
+
+_Page 247_]
+
+One day, as he was lying in the meadow among the wild flowers,
+completely covered with butterflies of the most brilliant hues, as if it
+were a gorgeous cloak that he was wearing, there suddenly appeared
+before him a beautiful young girl.
+
+The youth was startled, for he knew her face. He had seen her often; it
+was the chiefs daughter, the prettiest maiden in the village, who had
+died ten days before!
+
+The truth was that she had loved this young man in secret, but he had
+given no thought to her, for he cared only for the wild creatures and
+had no mind for human ways. Now, as she stood silently before him with
+downcast eyes, he looked upon her pure face and graceful form, and there
+awoke in his heart the love that he had never felt before.
+
+"But she is a spirit now!" he said to himself sorrowfully, and dared not
+speak to her.
+
+However, she smiled archly upon him, in his strange and beautiful
+garment, for she read his thoughts. Toward sunset, the butterflies flew
+away, and with them the ghost maiden departed.
+
+After this the young man was absent more than ever, and no one knew that
+the spirit of the maiden came to him in the deep woods. He built for her
+a lodge of pine boughs, and there she would come to cook his venison and
+to mend his moccasins, and sit with him beside his lonely camp-fire.
+
+But at last he was not content with this and begged her to go with him
+to the village, for his mother and kinsfolk would not allow him to
+remain always away from them.
+
+"Ah, my spirit wife," he begged, "can you not return with me to my
+people, so that I may have a home in their sight?"
+
+"It may be so," she replied thoughtfully, "if you will carefully
+observe my conditions. First, we must pitch our tent a little apart from
+the rest of the people. Second, you must patiently bear with my absences
+and the strangeness of my behavior, for I can only visit them and they
+me in the night time. Third, you must never raise your voice in our
+teepee, and above all, let me never hear you speak roughly to a child in
+my presence!"
+
+"All these I will observe faithfully," replied the young husband.
+
+Now it happened that after a longer absence than usual, he was seen to
+come home with a wife. They pitched their tent some way from the
+village, and the people saw at a distance the figure of a graceful young
+woman moving about the solitary white teepee. But whenever any of his
+relatives approached to congratulate him and to bid her welcome, she
+would take up her axe and go forth into the forest as if to cut wood
+for her fire, or with her bucket for water.
+
+At night, however, they came to see the young couple and found her at
+home, but it appeared very strange that she did not speak to any of
+them, not even by signs, though she smiled so graciously and sweetly
+that they all loved her. Her husband explained that the girl was of
+another race who have these strange ways, and by and by the people
+became used to them, and even ceased to wonder why they could never find
+her at home in the day time.
+
+So they lived happily together, and in due time children came to them;
+first a boy, and a little girl afterward. But one night the father came
+home tired and hungry from the hunt, and the little one cried loudly and
+would not be quieted. Then for the first time he forgot his promise and
+spoke angrily to the mother and child.
+
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+When he had kindled the fire again, he saw that he was alone, nor did
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