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"Is that all?" said the stranger. "Return, and thou shalt find the conaus in thy lodge, and when thou beholdest them, remember they are the gift of Manabozho. I am Manabozho." He spoke, and before the astonished hunter had time to thank him, vanished from his sight.
Now Manabozho knew well that the ice was thinning every day under the warm sun, but he could not stay himself from playing a trick upon the young wolf. In the evening when he came to the lake, after a long day's travel in quest of game, the young wolf, confiding in his grandfather, said, "Hwooh! the ice does look thin, but Nesho says it is sound;" and he trotted upon the glassy plain.
Now it chanced that one day he was walking about amusing himself by exercising his extraordinary powers, and at length he came to an encampment where one of the first things he noticed was a child lying in the sunshine, curled up with its toe in its mouth. Manabozho looked at the child for some time, and wondered at its extraordinary posture.
Whatever might have been the vindictive feelings of the relations of Leelinau, their resentment was never visited on the head of the young hunter. Once, it is said, two brothers of the rejected maiden lay in ambush to take his life; but as he passed unconsciously near them, and the fatal arrows were drawn to the head against his bosom, Manabozho appeared and forbade the deed.
I can not name it, I tremble so." The West told him to banish his fears, and to speak up; no one would hurt him. Manabozho began again, and he would have gone over the same make-believe of anguish, had not his father, whose strength he knew was more than a match for his own, threatened to pitch him into a river about five miles off.
"Yes," replied the old wolf, "it is always so with us; we know our work, and always get the best. It is not a long tail that makes the hunter." Manabozho bit his lip. They now fixed their winter quarters. The youngsters went out in search of game, and they soon brought in a large supply.
"Manabozho," said the wolf, "you must have been looking, or you would not have got hurt." "No, no," said Manabozho; and he thought to himself, "I will repay the saucy wolf for this." Next day, taking up a bone to obtain the marrow, he said to the old wolf "Cover your head, and don't look at me, for I fear a piece may fly in your eye." The wolf did so.
Bidding good-by to his venerable old grandmother, who pulled a very long face over his departure, Manabozho set out at great headway, for he was able to stride from one side of a prairie to the other at a single step. He found his father on a high mountain-ground, far in the west.
The story of Hiawatha known about the lakes as Manabozho and in the East as Glooskapis the most widely disseminated of the Indian legends.
You are making a great deal of noise." Manabozho started off again with his doleful hubbub; but succeeded in jerking out between his big sobs, "I have n't got any father nor mother; I have n't;" and he set out again lamenting more boisterously than ever.
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