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18 - Old Man Stories: The Lost Elk Meat · Blackfeet Native American Stories

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  Speaker 1: Chapter eighteen of Blackfeet Indian Stories. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: Indian Stories by George B. Grinnell, Chapter eighteen, The Lost
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  Speaker 1: Elk Meat. Old man had been a long time without
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  Speaker 1: food and was very hungry. He was trying to think
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  Speaker 1: how he could get something to eat when he saw
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  Speaker 1: a band of elk come up on a ridge. He
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  Speaker 1: went over to them and spoke to them and said, brothers,
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  Speaker 1: I am lonely because I have no one to follow me.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, old man, said the elk, we will follow you.
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  Speaker 1: Old man led them about for a long time, and
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  Speaker 1: when it was dark, he came near a high, steep
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  Speaker 1: cut bank. He ran around to one side where the
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  Speaker 1: hill sloped, and then went back right under the steep
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  Speaker 1: cliff and called out, come on, that is a nice jump.
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  Speaker 1: You will laugh. So all the elk jumped off and
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  Speaker 1: were killed, except one cow. They have all jumped, but you, said,
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  Speaker 1: old man, come on, you will like it. Take pity
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  Speaker 1: on me, said the cow. I am very heavy and
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  Speaker 1: I am afraid to jump. Go away. Then said old man,
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  Speaker 1: go and live. Then some day there will be plenty
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  Speaker 1: of elk again. Old man built a fire and cooked
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  Speaker 1: some of the meat. And then he skinned all the elk,
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  Speaker 1: and cut up the meat and hung it up to dry.
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  Speaker 1: The tongues he hung on a pole. The next day
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  Speaker 1: he started off and was gone all day, and at
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  Speaker 1: night as he was coming home, he was very hungry.
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  Speaker 1: He was thinking to himself that he would have some
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  Speaker 1: roasted ribs and a tongue and other good things. But
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  Speaker 1: when he reached the place, the meat was all gone.
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  Speaker 1: The wolves had eaten it. It was lucky I hung
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  Speaker 1: up those tongues, said old man, or I should not
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  Speaker 1: have had anything to eat. But when he took down
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  Speaker 1: the tongues, they were all hollow. The mice had eaten
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  Speaker 1: out the meat, leaving only the skins. End of chapter eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: The Lost Elk Meat read by Kara Shallenburg on March sixteenth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand eight, in San Diego, California,