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Updated: May 21, 2025
The man of the red feather was strong and active, but at last he was thrown to the earth. "I have thrown you! I have thrown you!" shouted Manabush. "You have gained a great gift for your people," said Mondamin, "for I am the spirit of the corn." Even as he spoke, a wonderful change took place. Gone was the man who had wrestled with such strength.
His garments had turned into green and yellow corn husks, and his body to a ripe red ear of corn. But the red plume was still waving. Again the voice of Mondamin was heard from the ground. "Take from me my covers. Scatter my kernels over the plain. Break my spine and throw it all about you. "Make the earth soft and light above me. Let no bird disturb me, and let no weed share my resting place.
So as they sat beside him on the piazza. Uncle Robert told the story of Hiawatha and Mondamin. "Hiawatha was a brave young Indian chief," began Uncle Robert, "who wanted to help his people. He knew that there were times when they had no food. In the winter the birds flew away. The 'big sea water, as they called the great lake, was frozen over, and they could catch no fish.
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.
"When they wrestled the next night it was as Mondamin had said. He was conquered. Then, day after day, Hiawatha came and watched, "'Till at length a small green feather From the earth shot slowly upward." "There it is," whispered Susie. "Sh!" said Donald. "Then another and another," continued Uncle Robert, "and before long the corn was waving its long, green foliage in the sunshine.
How it had happened that two such expert canoeists as Leslie Graham and Fred Hamilton could fall out of anything that sailed the water, was a question those who knew them could not have solved. They had been over to Mondamin Island to gather golden-rod and asters for a party the young lady was to give the next evening.
Truly this stranger must come from skyland, he thought. What answer does he bring? "I am Mondamin," said the strange man. "Your prayers are heard, for you pray, not for yourself, but for your people. I have come to show you how by labor and struggle you can gain what you have prayed for. You must wrestle with me." Long they strove together.
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.
"'The Master of Life has sent me, said the youth. 'I am Mondamin. It is only by hard labor Hiawatha, that you can gain the answer to your prayer. Rise now, and wrestle with me. "Hiawatha was weak from fasting, but he did as Mondamin commanded. Until the sun had set they wrestled together. Then Mondamin went away as silently as he had come. "A second time he came, and a third.
"'It is Mondamin! cried Hiawatha,'the friend of man, Mondamin!" "What a lovely story!" cried Susie as Uncle Robert finished. "I wish Frank could have heard it." "We'll find it in your mother's book of Longfellow's poems and let Frank read it," said Uncle Robert. "Let's tell him about the seeds first," said Donald. "He'll like it better then." It was a busy time on the farm.
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