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21 - Old Man Stories: The Theft from the Sun · Blackfeet Native American Stories

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty one of Blackfeet Indians Stories. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Lucy Lefaro, New South Wales, Australia. Blackfeet Indian
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  Speaker 1: Stories by George B. Grinnell, Chapter twenty one, Old Man's Stories,
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  Speaker 1: The Theft from the Sun. One time, when old Man
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  Speaker 1: was on a journey, he came to the Sun's lodge
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  Speaker 1: and went in and sat down, and the Sun asked
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  Speaker 1: him to stay with him for a time. Old Man
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  Speaker 1: was glad to do so. One day the meat was
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  Speaker 1: all gone, and the Sun said, well, old Man, what
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  Speaker 1: do you say if we go out and kill some deer.
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  Speaker 1: I like what you say, said old Man. Deer meat
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  Speaker 1: is good. The Sun took down a bag that was
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  Speaker 1: hanging from a lodge pile and took from it a
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  Speaker 1: handsome pair of leggings embroidered with porcupine quills and pretty feathers.
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  Speaker 1: These are my hunting leggings, said the Sun. They have
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  Speaker 1: great power. When I want to kill deer, all I
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  Speaker 1: have to do is to put them on and walk
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  Speaker 1: around a patch of brush, and the leggings set it
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  Speaker 1: on fire and drive out the deer so that I
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  Speaker 1: can shoot them. Well well, exclaimed old man, how wonderful
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  Speaker 1: that is. He began to think, I wish I had
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  Speaker 1: such a pair of leggings as that, And after he
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  Speaker 1: had thought about it some more, he made up his
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  Speaker 1: mind that he would have those leggings if he had
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  Speaker 1: to steal them. They went out to hunt, and when
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  Speaker 1: they came to a patch of brush, the sun set
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  Speaker 1: it on fire with his hunting leggings. A number of
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  Speaker 1: deer ran out, and each shot one. That night, when
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  Speaker 1: they were going to bed, the Sun pulled off his
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  Speaker 1: leggings and laid them aside. Old man saw where he
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  Speaker 1: had put them, and in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: after everyone was asleep, he took the leggings and went away.
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  Speaker 1: He traveled a long time until he had gone far
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  Speaker 1: away and was tired. Then, making a pillow of the leggings,
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  Speaker 1: he lay down and slept. After a while, he heard
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  Speaker 1: someone speaking and woke up and saw that it was day.
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  Speaker 1: Some one was talking to him. The sun was saying,
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  Speaker 1: old man, why are my leggings under your head? Old
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  Speaker 1: man looked about him and saw that he was in
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  Speaker 1: the Sun's lodge. He thought he must have wandered around
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  Speaker 1: and got lost, and returned there again. The Sun spoke
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  Speaker 1: and art asked, what are you doing with my leggings, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: replied old Man. I could not find anything for a pillow,
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  Speaker 1: so I put these leggings under my head. When night
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  Speaker 1: came and all had gone to bed, again, old man
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  Speaker 1: stole the leggings and ran off. This time he did
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  Speaker 1: not walk at all. He kept running until it was
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  Speaker 1: almost morning, and then lay down and slept. When morning came,
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  Speaker 1: he found himself still in the Sun's lodge. You see
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  Speaker 1: what a fool he was. He did not know that
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  Speaker 1: the whole world is the Sun's lodge. He did not
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  Speaker 1: know that no matter how far he ran, he could
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  Speaker 1: not get out of the Sun's sight. This time, the
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  Speaker 1: Sun said, old Man, since you like my leggings so much,
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  Speaker 1: I give them to you. Keep them. Then old man
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  Speaker 1: was glad, and he went away. One day, his food
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  Speaker 1: was all gone, and he put on the hunting leggings
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  Speaker 1: and went out and set fire to a piece of brush.
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  Speaker 1: He was just going to kill some deer that were
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  Speaker 1: running out. When he saw that the fire was getting
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  Speaker 1: close to him. He ran away as fast as he could,
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  Speaker 1: but the fire gained on him and began to burn
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  Speaker 1: his legs. His leggings were all on fire. He came
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  Speaker 1: to a river and jumped in and put off the
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  Speaker 1: leggings as soon as he could. They were burnt to pieces.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps the sun did this because old man tried to
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  Speaker 1: steal his leggings. End of Chapter twenty one.