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Updated: May 15, 2025
I am to drive the missionary to-day. He goes to the Delaware line once more." "Ha! The Delawares!" sneered old Fire-Flower. "I like not those Delawares. They worship idols. It is not good to dance around idols." "Not good," again echoed Fish-Carrier. "Still the Delawares are not really bad people," said Wampum.
"Fought, killed each other, until the island ran with blood redder than that sunset, and the sea water about it was stained flame color it was then, my people say, that the scarlet fire-flower was first seen growing along this coast." "It is a beautiful color the fire-flower," I said.
"Yes," said old "Fire-Flower," beginning his story, "that was the strangest bear hunt the Grand River ever saw. These white men think they can come here and kill game, but a bear knows more than a paleface, at least that one did."
"He is a good man. I don't want to see the Delawares kill him." "He certainly will try it himself," said Wampum. "His heart is set on turning the dark Delaware to his Christianity." Fire-Flower sneered. "How little those white men know, even such great white men as the Black-Coat!" he remarked loftily.
"Fish-Carrier," the other hunter, nodded his head understandingly, refilled his stone pipe, and said tauntingly, "I know some Indians that don't know as much as a bear." Fire-Flower chuckled, passing the insinuation with a knowing smile. "No bear knows more than this Indian," he boasted. "At least no bear I ever came across could outwit me."
"I am an old man," continued Fire-Flower, "but I have never seen anything which made me laugh so hard, so long, so loud. The palefaces swam back to their camp and their guns, calling out to me over and over to save their canoe for them. So I put out in my own dugout and gave chase. I caught their canoe, overturned it, and into the water rolled the bear.
"My uncle," he addressed Fire-Flower, "I am but a boy, only beginning to hunt, though the great braves have been kind in giving me praise for what I have done already, but I am full of ignorance when compared to you and the great hunters; so, to help me in the days to come, will you not tell me how you drowned the bear, for I do not know all these things?" "A fine boy, Wampum is.
The Poppy is called Chryseis at times, after one of the characters of Homer; and it is also known by the Spanish name, especially in the early days, Caliz de Oro, Chalice of Gold. Another designation, used by the poets, is Copa de Oro, Cup of Gold; while in Indian legends it has sometimes been styled, "Fire-Flower" and "Great Spirit Flower."
He knows whom to ask advice and learning from," said Fire-Flower pompously, greatly pleased at the boy's flattery. "It is an easy thing to do, to drown a bear," he said. "The frailest canoe is safe even in the clutches of the fiercest. Just lay your paddle lightly across the bear's neck, back of his ears.
"We'll hear what you have to tell," answered Fish-Carrier, with great condescension. Young Wampum sat erect then. He knew the tale was going to be a good one. Teasingly, old Fire-Flower took an unnecessarily long time to "light up," but his two auditors were Indians, like himself, and had patience with his whims.
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