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Watch me till I stand once more tall and beautiful. Then you shall have food for your people." Manabush obeyed all that the voice had commanded. On the way back to his canoe he killed a deer, but he said no word to his companions of his strange adventure with the man of the red feather. When the new moon hung like a bow in the west, he visited the field alone.
Manabush carried all the treasures into the wood and concealed them in a cave. Then he took the magic canoe and hid it among the rocks. A voice was heard from one of the stone images: "In this way will the canoes of your people be loaded when they pass again along this coast." Manabush returned to his two young companions, bidding them arise and cook.
He found the corn clad in green and yellow, with red plumes waving. And great yellow pumpkins were ripening on the green vines. As he picked the ripe red ears he heard a voice from the field, saying: "Victory has crowned your struggles, O Manabush. The gift of corn is to your people, and will always be their food."
The brave warrior prayed to the spirits of earth and air, asking that food be given to his tribe. One morning Manabush rose early, leaving the two boys asleep. He went out from the tent and walked in the forest, where he could not be seen. Suddenly he came out upon an open plain. Approaching him was a handsome youth dressed in garments of green and yellow. In his hair he wore a red plume.
There are many stories about Manabush, and you have heard how he wrestled with Mondamin and obtained the gift of corn. "In his early youth Manabush lived with his grandmother, who taught him his duty to his people. "One day she said to him: 'My grandson, you are old enough to prove yourself a man.
"One day, when Manabush was quite large, it sat up on its haunches and hopped slowly across the floor of the wigwam, and caused the earth to tremble. "When the bad Windegoos, or evil spirits who dwell underground, felt the earth to thus tremble they said, 'What is the matter? What has happened? "But Nanahboozhoo did not long continue to look like a rabbit.
When she removed the bowl from its place, instead of there being the baby boy she had placed there she beheld a little white rabbit, and on taking it up she said, 'O my dear little rabbit, my Manabush! Nokomis took great care of it and it grew very rapidly.
He fasted many days until he became weak and faint from hunger. "In his wanderings he drew near the shore of a lake. Great beds of wild rice filled half its waters, but Manabush did not know that the seeds were good to eat. "As he walked along within reach of the growing plants, he heard a soft voice say, 'Sometimes they eat us. "'Who is speaking? he asked.
There he saw a canoe drawn up on the beach. Coming near, he found a man in the bow and another in the stern. They had been changed into stone images as a punishment for their wicked deeds. The canoe was the largest and finest that Manabush had ever seen. It was full of bags of the most beautiful clothing and stores of the rarest food.
Then he brought ears of corn and pumpkins and laid before them. He told them of his wrestling with Mondamin, and he showed them the field where the corn stood in its garments of green and yellow, waving its red plumes. The secret of the magic canoe, the stone images, and the wonderful gifts was shared by Manabush with his father and mother.
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