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"Silence!" screamed the hag, supporting me. "I hear, far off, the gates of Biskoona opening! Hark! Ta-ho-ne-ho-ga-wen! The doors open the doors of flame! The Stonish Giants ride forth! O chief, for your sacrilege you die!" A horrified silence followed; the chief reeled back, dropping the death-maul. Suddenly a horse's iron-shod foot rang out on a stone, close at hand.
Now, de second hinge is de safety, and it 'stonish me dat an onderstanding man, and a man ob experunce and larning like you, Missa Basset, should dream o' going in de daytime. Dere stand old Holden probumbly wid his rifle in de window and all he hab to do, he see so plan, is to pull de trigger and den where is you, Missa Basset?
"But the most absurd part of it all is that the Onondagas, who are none too friendly with us, though they pretend to be, have told the Cayugas that the Stonish Giants have returned to earth from Biskoona, which is hell. And I doubt not that the dreadful news will spread all through the Six Nations, with, perhaps, some astonishing results to us.
"Now listen. You have heard me tell of the Stonish Giants those legendary men of stone whom the Iroquois, Hurons, Algonquins, and Lenape stood in such dread of two hundred years ago, and whom our historians believe to have been some lost company of Spaniards in armor, strayed northward from Cortez's army.
Catrine Montour closed her horrible little eyes, threw back her head, and, marking time with her flat foot, began to chant. She chanted the glory of the Long House; of the nations that drove the Eries, the Hurons, the Algonquins; of the nation that purged the earth of the Stonish Giants; of the nation that fought the dreadful battle of the Flying Heads.
For scouts have already come in, reporting trouble between General Burgoyne and his Wyandots, who declare they have had enough of the war and did not enlist to fight the Stonish Giants which excuse is doubtless meaningless to him. "And other scouts from the northwest say that St.
"Brer Wolf looked 'stonish'. He 'low, 'How you know? "Brer Rabbit say, 'I knows what I knows! "Brer Wolf say, 'Gimme some mo'! "Brer Rabbit say, 'You kin git some mo' fer yo'se'f easy 'nuff, en de fresher 'tis, de better. "Brer Wolf 'low, 'How you know? "Brer Rabbit say, 'I knows what I knows! "Wid dat Brer Wolf stepped out, en start to'rds Brer Fox.
Amazement seized the flying head, who put out two huge black paws from under his streaming beard. Supposing the woman to be eating live coals he withdrew, and from that time he came no more among them. And they were also invaded by a still more fearful enemy, the Ot-nea-yar- heh, or Stonish Giants.
Presently her lips parted in one of her adorable smiles. "Now that you have made me weep till my nose is red you may pick me every strawberry in sight," she said, winking away the bright tears. "You have heard of the penance of the Algonquin witch?" I knew nothing of Northern Indian lore, and I said so. "What? You never heard of the Stonish Giants? You never heard of the Flying Head?
"Eve'ybody wuz 'stonish'; but dere wuz de ham. Co'se Dave 'nied it ter de las', but dere wuz de ham. Mars Walker say it wuz des ez he 'spected: he did n' b'lieve in dese yer readin' en prayin' niggers; it wuz all 'pocrisy, en sarve' Mars Dugal' right fer 'lowin' Dave ter be readin' books w'en it wuz 'g'in' de law.
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