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Speaker 1: Chapter seven, Part two of A Guide to Mythology by
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Speaker 1: Helen Clark. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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Speaker 1: Chapter seven, Part two, Mother Myths and Child Myths, the
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Speaker 1: story of Demeter and Percifhony Greek. Once upon a time
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Speaker 1: when the giants had all been imprisoned by Zeus under
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Speaker 1: Mount Etna, Pluto, the ruler over the lower regions or Hades,
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Speaker 1: became very much alarmed lest the shock of their fall
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Speaker 1: might expose his kingdom to the light of day. Under
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Speaker 1: this apprehension, he mounted his chariot, drawn by black horses,
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Speaker 1: and made a journey of inspection to satisfy himself of
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Speaker 1: the extent of the damage. While he was thus engaged,
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Speaker 1: he was a spied by the goddess of Love, Aphrodite Venus,
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Speaker 1: who was sitting on Mount Edy's playing with her little
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Speaker 1: boy arrows Cupid. He is one of the children in
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Speaker 1: mythology who never grows up and never grows any wiser.
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Speaker 1: He carries about with him always a bow and a
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Speaker 1: quiver full of arrows, which she shoots right into the
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Speaker 1: hearts of people, and fills them with a love so
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Speaker 1: overwhelming for someone they have seen that they will even
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Speaker 1: carry that person off against his or her will, As
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Speaker 1: this present story shows, as soon as Aphrodite saw Pluto,
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Speaker 1: she exclaimed, my son, take thy darts which subdue all,
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Speaker 1: even Zeus himself, and send one into the breast of yonder,
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Speaker 1: dark monarch who rules the realm of Tartarus. Dost thou
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Speaker 1: not see that even in heaven some despise our power.
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Speaker 1: Athene and Artemis defy us, and there is that daughter
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Speaker 1: of Demeter who threatens to follow their example. Now, if
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Speaker 1: thou regardest thine own interest or mine, join these two
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Speaker 1: in one. The boy selected his sharpest and truest arrow
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Speaker 1: and sped it right to the heart of Pluto. Now
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Speaker 1: in the Vale of Enna is a lake embowered in
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Speaker 1: woods where spring rains perpetual. Here persiphone Roman Proserpina was
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Speaker 1: playing with her companions, gathering lilies and violets. When the
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Speaker 1: god Pluto saw her. He immediately loved her, and without
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Speaker 1: waiting to find out whether she returned his love or not,
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Speaker 1: he caught her up and carried her off. She screamed
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Speaker 1: for help to her mother and her companions, but Pluto
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Speaker 1: urged on his steeds and out distanced pursuit. When he
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Speaker 1: reached the river Cyane, it opposed his passage, whereupon he
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Speaker 1: struck the bank with his trident, and the earth opened
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Speaker 1: and gave him a passage to Tartarus. Then Demet, overwhelmed
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Speaker 1: with grief, sought her daughter through the whole world, Bright
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Speaker 1: haired Aurora when she came forth in the morning, and Hesperus,
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Speaker 1: when he led out the stars in the evening, found
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Speaker 1: her still busy in the search. At length, weary and sad,
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Speaker 1: she sat down upon a stone and remained nine days
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Speaker 1: and nine nights in the open air, under the sunlight
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Speaker 1: and moonlight and falling shade. It was where the city
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Speaker 1: of eleusis now stands, near the home of an old
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Speaker 1: man named Selius. His little girl pitying, the old woman
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Speaker 1: said to her mother, and the name was sweet to
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Speaker 1: the ears of Demeter. Why sittest thou here alone upon
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Speaker 1: the rocks? The old man begged her to come into
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Speaker 1: his cottage. She declined. He urged her go in peace,
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Speaker 1: she replied, and be happy in thy daughter, I have
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Speaker 1: lost mine. But their compassion finally prevailed. Demeter rose from
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Speaker 1: the stone and went with them. As they walked, Selius
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Speaker 1: said that his only son lay sick of a fever.
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Speaker 1: The goddess stooped and gathered some poppies. Then, entering the cottage,
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Speaker 1: where all was in distress. For the boy, Tryptolemus seemed
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Speaker 1: past recovery. She restored the child to life and health
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Speaker 1: with a kiss. In grateful happiness. The family spread the
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Speaker 1: table and put upon it curds and cream, apples and
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Speaker 1: honey in the comb. When they ate, Demeter mingled poppy
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Speaker 1: juice in the milk of the boy. When night came,
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Speaker 1: she arose, and, taking the sleeping boy, molded his limbs
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Speaker 1: with her hands and uttered over him three times a
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Speaker 1: solemn charm. Then went and laid him in the ashes.
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Speaker 1: His mother, who had been watching what her guest was doing,
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Speaker 1: sprang forward with a cry and snatched the child from
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Speaker 1: the fire. Then Demeter assumed her own form, and a
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Speaker 1: divine splendor shone all around. While they were overcome with astonishing,
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Speaker 1: she said, mother, thou hast been cruel in thy fondness,
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Speaker 1: for I would have made thy son immortal. Nevertheless, he
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Speaker 1: shall be great and useful. He shall teach men the
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Speaker 1: use of the plow and the rewards which labor can
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Speaker 1: win from the soil. So saying she wrapped a cloud
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Speaker 1: about her, and mounting her chariot, rode away. Demeter continued
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Speaker 1: her search for her daughter until at last she returned
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Speaker 1: to Sicily, whence she had at first set out and
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Speaker 1: stood by the banks of the river Cyane. The river nymph,
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Speaker 1: would have told the goddess all she had witnessed, but
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Speaker 1: dared not for fear of Pluto. So she ventured merely
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Speaker 1: to take up the girdle which Perseifony had dropped in
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Speaker 1: her flight and floated to the feet of her mother. Demeter,
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Speaker 1: seeing this, laid her curse upon the innocent earth in
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Speaker 1: which her daughter had disappeared. Then succeeded drought and famine,
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Speaker 1: flood and plague, until at last the fountain Arethusa made
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Speaker 1: intercession for the land, for she had observed that it
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Speaker 1: had opened all unwillingly to the might of Pluto, and
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Speaker 1: she had, also, in her flight from Alphaeus through the
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Speaker 1: lower regions of the Earth, beheld the missing Persephony. She
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Speaker 1: reported that the daughter of Demeter seemed sad, but no
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Speaker 1: longer showed alarm in her countenance. Her look was such
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Speaker 1: as became a queen, the Queen of Erebus, the powerful
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Speaker 1: bride of the monarch of the Realm of the Dead.
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Speaker 1: When Demeter heard this, she stood awhile like one stupefied.
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Speaker 1: Then she implored Zeus to interfere to procure the restitution
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Speaker 1: of her daughter. Zeus consented, on condition that Persiphone should not,
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Speaker 1: during her stay in the lower world have taken any food,
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Speaker 1: Otherwise the fates forbade her release. Accordingly, Hermes was sent
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Speaker 1: accompanied by Spring to demand persiphony of Pluto. The wily
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Speaker 1: monarch consented, but alas the Maiden had taken a pomegranate
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Speaker 1: which Pluto offered her, and had sucked the sweet pulp
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Speaker 1: from a few of the seeds. A compromise, however, was effected,
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Speaker 1: by which she was to pass half the time with
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Speaker 1: her mother and the rest with the Lord of Hades.
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Speaker 1: So the flowers bloom upon the earth for half the year,
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Speaker 1: and for the other half are buried underground, out of sight. Demeter,
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Speaker 1: pacified with this arrangement, restored the earth to her favor.
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Speaker 1: She remembered also about Sealius and his family, and her
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Speaker 1: promise to his infant son, Tryptolemus. She taught the boy
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Speaker 1: the use of the plow and how to sow the seed.
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Speaker 1: She took him in her chariot drawn by winged dragons,
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Speaker 1: through all the countries of the earth, and under her
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Speaker 1: guidance he imparted to mankind valuable grains and the knowledge
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Speaker 1: of agriculture. After his return, Tryptolemus built a temple to
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Speaker 1: Demeter in Eleusis and established the worship of the goddess
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Speaker 1: under the name of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which in the
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Speaker 1: splendor and solemnity of their observance, surpassed all other religious
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Speaker 1: celebrations among the Greeks. Myths in which children figure are
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Speaker 1: so numerous that it will be possible to give but
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Speaker 1: a few of the most important ones. There are sun
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Speaker 1: and moon children, and star children and children of the wind,
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Speaker 1: strong children and clever children, and tricksy children, and even
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Speaker 1: children who were worshiped as ancestors. A charming tale of
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Speaker 1: the Zuni Indians tells how they came to worship children.
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Speaker 1: Once some mothers were crossing a river with their children.
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Speaker 1: By some magical means, the children were changed into such
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Speaker 1: ugly and mischievous shapes that many of the mothers, in
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Speaker 1: their fright, let them fall into the water. Some of
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Speaker 1: them held fast to their children, and these were restored
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Speaker 1: to their natural shapes on the other side of the river.
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Speaker 1: But those who had lost their children grieved deeply, and
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Speaker 1: nothing could comfort them. Thereupon, two little twin brothers, who
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Speaker 1: were called sons of the Sun, went downward beneath the
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Speaker 1: waters of a lake to the dwelling of the children, who,
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Speaker 1: as soon as they saw the twins, inquired lovingly how
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Speaker 1: it fared with their mothers. Their visitors told them of
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Speaker 1: the grief and sorrow of their parents. Whereupon the children said,
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Speaker 1: tell our mothers, we are not dead, but live and
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Speaker 1: sing in this beautiful place, which is the home for them.
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Speaker 1: When they sleep, one day they will wake here and
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Speaker 1: be happy always. And we are here to intercede with
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Speaker 1: the son our father, that he may give to our
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Speaker 1: people rain and the fruits of the earth, and all
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Speaker 1: that is good for them. Since these children have been
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Speaker 1: worshiped as ancestral gods, we have already had a little
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Speaker 1: story in which the stars appear as the children of
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Speaker 1: the Sun and Moon. In another one of the Indians
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Speaker 1: of British Columbia, the dark spots which we see on
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Speaker 1: the moon are supposed to be a child and her
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Speaker 1: little basket. According to this legend. One night a child
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Speaker 1: of the chief class awoke and cried for water. Its
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Speaker 1: cries were very affecting, Mother, give me a drink, But
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Speaker 1: the mother heeded not. The moon was touched and came down,
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Speaker 1: entered the house and approached the child, saying, here is
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Speaker 1: water from heaven. Drink. The child eagerly took hold of
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Speaker 1: the jar and drank the water, and was then enticed
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Speaker 1: to go away with its benefactor, the moon. They took
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Speaker 1: an underground passage until they got quite clear of the village,
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Speaker 1: and then ascended to heaven. And still we see in
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Speaker 1: the moon the figure of that very child, carrying the
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Speaker 1: little round basket it had in its hand when it
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Speaker 1: went to sleep. The Indians of Mount Shasta have a
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Speaker 1: little wind child, who also became the ancestress of the
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Speaker 1: Grisly Bear people. They tell how once a terrific storm
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Speaker 1: came up from the sea and shook to its base
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Speaker 1: the Wigwam Mount Shasta itself, in which lived the Great
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Speaker 1: Spirit and his family. Then the Great Spirit commanded his daughter,
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Speaker 1: little more than an infant, to go up and command
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Speaker 1: the wind to be still. But he cautioned her at
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Speaker 1: the same time in a tender fatherly manner to be
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Speaker 1: sure and not put her head out into the blast,
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Speaker 1: but to thrust out her little red arm and make
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Speaker 1: a sign before she delivered her message. But she could
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Speaker 1: not withstand the temptation to look out upon the world, and,
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Speaker 1: of course, being such a little thing, she was caught
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Speaker 1: up by the storm and blown down the mountain into
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Speaker 1: the land of the grizzly bear people. She married one
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Speaker 1: of them and became the ancestress of a new race
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Speaker 1: of men. When the Great Spirit heard that his daughter
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Speaker 1: still lived, he ran down the mountain for joy. But
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Speaker 1: when he found out that his daughter had married one
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Speaker 1: of the grizzly bear people, he was so angry that
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Speaker 1: he cursed the grizzly people and turned them into the
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Speaker 1: present race of bears of that name. Then he drove
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Speaker 1: them and the new race of men out of their
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Speaker 1: wigwam shut to the door, and passed away to his mountains,
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Speaker 1: carrying his daughter with him, and her or him no
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Speaker 1: eye has seen since. A very important mythical being in
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Speaker 1: Polynesian mythology is a little boy called Maui Tikitiki o Turanga,
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Speaker 1: and how he caught the sun is told in the
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Speaker 1: story of him in this chapter, the Egyptians called the
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Speaker 1: sun itself a child when it was rising. The name
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Speaker 1: of this child's son was Horace, and he was sometimes
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Speaker 1: regarded as the god of silence and represented as a
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Speaker 1: child with his finger held up to his lip. The
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Speaker 1: principal children in Greek myths are Heracles and Hermes, who,
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Speaker 1: although they figure in many stories after they had become
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Speaker 1: full grown gods, were both very remarkab when they were babies.
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Speaker 1: Heracles was the god of strength, but it is very
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Speaker 1: probable that there are some cosmic elements in the conception
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Speaker 1: of this god. His struggle with the serpents in his
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Speaker 1: babyhood resembles very closely other battles in mythology between the
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Speaker 1: Sun and the powers of darkness, ra and anopeph or
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Speaker 1: Apollo and the python. Hermes, who is a roguish little imp,
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Speaker 1: is full of such tricks as the wind plays, and
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Speaker 1: he has become the model of many a medieval tale
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Speaker 1: of tricksy thieves and wonder workers. Other stories to be
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Speaker 1: given in this chapter show how important little human children
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Speaker 1: were among primitive people, so important in one story that
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Speaker 1: all the animals in the world assembled and tried to
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Speaker 1: save two two little boys who went sound asleep upon
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Speaker 1: a rock that gradually rose higher and higher until their
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Speaker 1: faces touched the moon. And so important in another that
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Speaker 1: even the great god of the Algonquins gluys Cup himself
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Speaker 1: was conquered by the baby. And in still another Indian myth,
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Speaker 1: so important that if it had not been for the
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Speaker 1: wishes of the little son of a Manito, there would
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Speaker 1: never have been any summer. But this last, if he
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Speaker 1: really were the son of a Manito, was of course
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Speaker 1: a little more than human. Legend of Teutakanula Indians of
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Speaker 1: the Yosemite Valley, there were once two little boys living
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Speaker 1: in the valley who went down to the river to swim.
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Speaker 1: After paddling and splashing about to their hearts content, they
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Speaker 1: went on shore and crept upon a huge boulder that
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Speaker 1: stood beside the water, on which they lay down in
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Speaker 1: the warm sunshine to dry themselves. Very soon they fell asleep,
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Speaker 1: and slept so soundly that they never wakened more. Through
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Speaker 1: moons and snows, winter and summer they slumbered on. Meantime.
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Speaker 1: The great rock whereon they slept was treacherously rising day
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Speaker 1: and night, little by little, until it soon lifted them
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Speaker 1: up beyond the sight of their friends, who sought them
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Speaker 1: everywhere weeping. Thus they were borne up at last, beyond
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Speaker 1: all human help or reach of human voice, lifted up
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Speaker 1: into the blue heavens, far up, far up, until their
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Speaker 1: faces touched the moon. And still they slumbered and slept
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Speaker 1: year after year, safe among the clouds. Then upon a
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Speaker 1: time all the animals assembled together to bring down the
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Speaker 1: little boys from the top of the great rock. Every
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Speaker 1: animal made a spring up the face of the wall
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Speaker 1: as far as he could leap. The little mouse could
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Speaker 1: only jump up a hand breath, the rat two hand breaths,
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Speaker 1: the raccoon a little farther, and so on, the grizzly
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Speaker 1: bear making a mighty leap far up the wall, but
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Speaker 1: falling back like all the others. Last of all, the
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Speaker 1: lion tried, and he jumped up farther than any other animal,
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Speaker 1: but he too fell down flat on his back. Then
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Speaker 1: came along an insignificant measuring worm, which even the mouse
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Speaker 1: could have crushed by treading on it, and began to
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Speaker 1: creep up the rock step by step, a little at
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Speaker 1: a time. He measured his way up until he presently
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Speaker 1: was above the lion's jump. Then pretty soon out of sight.
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Speaker 1: So he crawled up and up through many sleeps, for
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Speaker 1: about one whole snow, and at last he reached the top.
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Speaker 1: Then he took the little boys and came downward as
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Speaker 1: he went up, so bringing them safely to ground. And
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Speaker 1: the rock is called the measuring worm. To Tokanula Nazikiwawa
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Speaker 1: son or the lone lightning Ojibwa, a little orphan boy
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Speaker 1: who had no one to care for him, was once
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Speaker 1: living with his uncle, who treated him very badly, making
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Speaker 1: him do hard things and giving him very little to eat,
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Speaker 1: so that the boy pined away. He never grew much
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Speaker 1: and became, through hard usage, very thin and light. At last,
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Speaker 1: the uncle felt ashamed of his treatment and determined to
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Speaker 1: make amends for it by fattening him up. But his
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Speaker 1: real object was to kill him by over feeding. He
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Speaker 1: told his wife to give the boy plenty of bear's
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Speaker 1: meat and let him have the fat, which is thought
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Speaker 1: to be the best part. They were both very assiduous
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Speaker 1: in cramming him, and one day came near choking him
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Speaker 1: to death by forcing the fat down his throat. The
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Speaker 1: boy escaped and fled from the lodge. He knew not
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Speaker 1: where to go, but wandered about. When night came on,
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Speaker 1: he was afraid the wild beasts would eat him, so
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Speaker 1: he climbed up into the forks of a huge pine tree,
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Speaker 1: and there he fell asleep in the branches and had
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Speaker 1: an aupoway, or ominous dream. A person appeared to him
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Speaker 1: from the upper sky and said, my poor little lad,
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Speaker 1: I pity you, and the bad usage you have received
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Speaker 1: from your uncle has led me to visit you. Follow
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Speaker 1: me and step in my tracks. Immediately his sleep left him,
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Speaker 1: and he rose up and followed his guide, mounting up
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Speaker 1: higher and higher into the air until he reached the
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Speaker 1: upper sky. Here twelve arrows were put into his hands,
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Speaker 1: and he was told that there were a great many
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Speaker 1: manitos in the northern sky, against whom he must go
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Speaker 1: to war and try to waylay and shoot them. Accordingly,
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Speaker 1: he went to that part of the sky, and at
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Speaker 1: long intervals, shot arrow after arrow, until he had expended
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Speaker 1: eleven in vain attempts to kill the manitos. At the
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Speaker 1: flight of each arrow, there was a long and solitary
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Speaker 1: streak of lightning in the sky. Then all was clear again,
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Speaker 1: and not a cloud or spot could be seen. The
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Speaker 1: twelfth arrow he held a long time in his hands,
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Speaker 1: and looked around keenly on every side to spy the
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Speaker 1: manitoes he was after. But these manitos were very cunning
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Speaker 1: and could change their form in a moment. All they
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Speaker 1: feared was the boy's arrows, for these were magic arrows,
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Speaker 1: which had been given to him by a good spirit,
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Speaker 1: and had power to kill them if aimed aright. At length,
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Speaker 1: the boy drew up his last arrow, settled in his aim,
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Speaker 1: and let fly, as he thought, into the very heart
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Speaker 1: of the chief of the manitos. But before the arrow
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Speaker 1: reached him, the Manito changed himself into a rock. Into
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Speaker 1: this rock, the head of the arrow sank deep and
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Speaker 1: stuck fast. Now your gifts are all expended, cried the
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Speaker 1: enraged Manito, and I will make an example of your
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Speaker 1: audacity and pride of heart for lifting your bow against me.
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Speaker 1: And so saying, he transformed the boy into the nacikh
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Speaker 1: awawasan or lone lightning which may be observed in the
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Speaker 1: northern sky to this day was Sis the baby. How
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Speaker 1: the lord of men and beasts strove with the mighty Wasis,
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Speaker 1: and was shamefully defeated penobscot. Now it came to pass,
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Speaker 1: when Gluiscup had conquered all his enemy, even the keywalk
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Speaker 1: who were giants and sorcerers, and the Amtolin, who were magicians,
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Speaker 1: and the Pamola, who is the evil spirit of the
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Speaker 1: night air, and all manner of ghosts, witches, devils, cannibals
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Speaker 1: and goblins. That he thought upon what he had done,
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Speaker 1: and wondered if his work was at an end. And
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Speaker 1: he said this to a certain woman, But she replied,
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Speaker 1: not so fast, Master, for there yet remains one whom
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Speaker 1: no one has ever conquered or got the better of
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Speaker 1: in any way, and who will remain unconquered to the
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Speaker 1: end of time. And who is? He inquired The Master?
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Speaker 1: It is the Mighty wasis? She replied, And there he sits?
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Speaker 1: And I warn you that if you meddle with him,
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Speaker 1: you will be in sore trouble. Now wasis was the baby?
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Speaker 1: And he sat on the floor sucking a piece of
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Speaker 1: maple sugar, greatly contented troubling no one, As the Lord
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Speaker 1: of men and beasts had never married or had a child,
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Speaker 1: he knew not of the way of managing children. Therefore
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Speaker 1: he was quite certain, as is the want of such people,
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Speaker 1: that he knew all about it, so he turned to
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Speaker 1: Baby with a bewitching smile and bade him come to him.
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Speaker 1: Then Baby smiled again, but did not budge. And the
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Speaker 1: Master spake sweetly and made his voice like that of
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Speaker 1: the summer bird. But it was of no avail, for
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Speaker 1: Wasis sat and sucked his maple sugar. Then the Master
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Speaker 1: frowned and spoke terribly, and ordered Wasis to come crawling
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Speaker 1: to him immediately. And Baby burst out into crying, yelling,
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Speaker 1: but did not move for all that then, since he
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Speaker 1: could do but one thing more, the Master had recourse
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Speaker 1: to magic. He used his most awful spells and sang
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Speaker 1: the songs which raise the dead and scare the devils.
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Speaker 1: And Wasi sat and looked on admiringly and seemed to
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Speaker 1: find it very interesting. But all the same he never
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Speaker 1: moved an inch. So Gluis Cup gave it up in despair,
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Speaker 1: and Wasis, sitting on the floor in the sunshine, went
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Speaker 1: goo goo and crowed. And to this day when you
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Speaker 1: see a babe well contented going goo goo and crowing,
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Speaker 1: and no one can tell why, know that it is
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Speaker 1: because he remembers the time when he overcame the Master
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Speaker 1: who had conquered all the world. For of all the
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Speaker 1: beings that have ever been since the beginning, Baby is
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Speaker 1: alone the only invincible one. End of Chapter seven, Part two,