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Updated: September 7, 2025
"Then Nanahboozhoo, seeing how smooth was the back of the great bird, said: "'Brother Buzzard, your back is so smooth that I am afraid I will slip off, so you must be careful not to sweep round too rapidly in your circles in the sky.
Seeing the merry smile on the raccoon's face, Nanahboozhoo bade him a good day, and asked him what was amusing him. "The raccoon, who did not know that it was Nanahboozhoo with whom he was talking, told him how he obtained the dish. When Nanahboozhoo heard this he was very angry at the raccoon for his heartless trick.
Nanahboozhoo remained until he saw that the little girl was quite recovered. Then he said: "'Now I will fix that snake so that he will not be able to do so much harm in the future.
When Nanahboozhoo saw this destitution and poverty he at once inquired the reason, and was surprised and very angry to hear that they were great gamblers.
Nanahboozhoo warned his brother of their enmity, and of the necessity of being on his guard against them. "These brothers moved far away and built their wigwam in a lonely country on the shore of a great lake which is now called Mirror Lake, because of its beautiful reflections. Here, as he was a hunter, Nahpootee was kept busy supplying the wigwam with food.
Thus was the old story-teller addressed by Sagastao, who always was anxious to learn about those who interested him. The old man began in this way: "When the great mountains are wrapped in the clouds we do not see them very well. So it is with Nanahboozhoo.
But this was not what Nanahboozhoo wanted, and so he shouted out: "'I want the old father fish to eat me. "This made old Mooshekinnebik very angry, and so, open mouthed, he rushed furiously at Nanahboozhoo who, when the great monster was close enough, took a leap into the open mouth and was immediately swallowed up.
"O how dreadful!" said Minnehaha. "We will never hear any more nice stories about Nanahboozhoo." "All a pack of lies; there never were any such monsters," snapped out old Mary, who could not longer conceal her jealousy at seeing how interested the children were in the story. "Hold on, Mary; not so fast," cried Sagastao, taking the book from Souwanas and showing the pictures to Mary.
"However, as a number of them were suspicious, it was decided to go up and shake it and see if it would move, and thus really find out. They went to it, and three of them together used their greatest efforts to move it. "Nanahboozhoo had to make one of the hardest efforts of his life to hold firm.
"I wonder if it were not one of his great grandfathers that swallowed Jonah," said the observant Minnehaha. "The Indians at length came to be so much distressed by the loss of so many of their number, and by their inability to slay the monster, that they resolved to ask Nanahboozhoo to come and help them if he possibly could.
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