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"I have never seen a child before lie like that," said he to himself, "but I could lie like it." So saying, he put himself down beside the child, and, taking his right foot in his hand, drew it towards his mouth. When he had brought it as near as he could it was yet a considerable distance away from his lips. "I will try the left foot," said Manabozho.
"But is there nothing you dread, here nothing that would hurt you if you took too much of it? Come, tell me." Manabozho was very urgent; at last his father said: "Yes, there is a black stone to be found a couple of hundred miles from here, over that way," pointing as he spoke.
Manabozho was so powerful that he began to think there was nothing he could not do. Very wonderful were many of his feats, and he grew more conceited day by day.
The Manitou of the Algonquins, and the Okies or Otkons of the Hurons and Iroquois were not always superior, mysterious beings endowed with supernatural powers, like the Algonquin Manabozho, the Great Hare, the king of all animals; or a deified hero, like Hiawatha, the founder of the Iroquois confederacy, and Glooscap, the favourite of Micmac legends.
The old wolf, hearing these words, came to Manabozho, and, behold! before him was a heap of fresh ruddy meat with the fat lying all ready prepared. Then Manabozho put on a smiling-face. "Amazement!" cried he, "how fine the meat is!" "Yes," replied the wolf; "it is always so with us. We know our work, and always get the best. It is not a long tail that makes a hunter." Manabozho bit his lip.
Of these the most conspicuous is that remarkable personage of Algonquin tradition, called Manabozho, Messou, Michabou, Nanabush, or the Great Hare. As each species of animal has its archetype or king, so, among the Algonquins, Manabozho is king of all these animal kings. Tradition is diverse as to his origin.
There was a tradition among Northern and Western tribes, that men were created from the carcasses of beasts, birds, and fishes, by Manabozho, a mythical personage, to be described hereafter. The Amikouas, or People of the Beaver, an Algonquin tribe of Lake Huron, claimed descent from the carcass of the great original beaver, or father of the beavers.
"Since I have sheltered you, I would sooner die with you than open the door." "Open," Manabozho cried again. The manito was silent. Manabozho made no attempt to force the door open. He waited a few moments. "Very well," said he, "I give you till night to live." The manito trembled, for he knew that when the hour came he would be shut up under the earth.
"My heart is changed; I see the error of my ways." Black and stormy as it had been all night, when morning came the sun was shining, the air was soft and sweet as the summer down and the blown rose; and afar off upon the side of a mountain sat Manabozho, his head upon his knees, languid and cast down in spirit.
The wolf did so; and Manabozho, taking the large leg-bone of the moose, first looking to see if the wolf was well covered, hit him a blow with all his might. The wolf jumped up, cried out, and fell prostrate from the effects of the blow. "Why," said he, when he came to a little and was able to sit up, "why do you strike me so?"
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