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  Speaker 1: Chapter six, Part one 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 six, Part one. Myths of the Sky and Air.
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  Speaker 1: The sky and the air are identified with the highest
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  Speaker 1: conceptions of divinity reached in the myths either of savage
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  Speaker 1: or more cultured races. The great Spirit of the North
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  Speaker 1: American Indians was the god of the Sky. Varuna, the
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  Speaker 1: all seeing, merciful god of the Hindus, was the god
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  Speaker 1: of the vault of heaven. Zeus, the supreme god of
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  Speaker 1: the Greeks, was the sky God, also Odin the Great
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  Speaker 1: God in Norse mythology, although above him was a mysterious,
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  Speaker 1: unnameable god or moused in Persian mythiad ptology range in Polynesian.
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  Speaker 1: In Japan, the invisible Lord of the Middle Heaven. Closely
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  Speaker 1: related in power to the gods of the sky are
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  Speaker 1: the gods of wind or storm. Sometimes the god of
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  Speaker 1: the sky is himself the wielder of the thunder, as
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  Speaker 1: in the case of Zeus, and sometimes there is a
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  Speaker 1: special god of storm or thunder, as the Indra of
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  Speaker 1: the Hindus or the Thor of the Norsemen. In Indian myths.
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  Speaker 1: Manabozho often wielded the thunder and lightning, and he has
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  Speaker 1: contests with another god of the air, pau pukiwees the wind,
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  Speaker 1: a personage full of mischief. As wind gods are apt
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  Speaker 1: to be. Like the Greek Hermes, the personification of wind
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  Speaker 1: and thunder as birds is very common, and men many
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  Speaker 1: A quaint tale results from this mythical idea. The Sioux
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  Speaker 1: Indians believed in a god, Joaquinian, in the form of
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  Speaker 1: a large bird whose flapping wings made the thunder. He
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  Speaker 1: lived in the far far west, on a mound rising
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  Speaker 1: from a mountain top. To his tent, there are four
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  Speaker 1: openings in which there are sentinels clothed in red down.
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  Speaker 1: At the east is a butterfly, at the west, a
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  Speaker 1: bear a fawn is at the south, and a reindeer
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  Speaker 1: is at the north. He fashioned the first spear and tomahawk,
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  Speaker 1: and attempted to kill the offspring of Oan Tahi, his
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  Speaker 1: bitter enemy. If Oantayhi came near the surface of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: then Joaquinian would fire a hot thunderbolt at him. Another
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  Speaker 1: of his enemies was Chehotrda, the god of the forest.
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  Speaker 1: It was said that the god of thunder often came
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  Speaker 1: racing along, hurling lightning at a tree to kill the
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  Speaker 1: forest god, who, having been warned, had taken refuge in
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  Speaker 1: the water. Then Chehotrdah would ascend a tree and hurl
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  Speaker 1: his lightning at his adversary to bring him down to submission.
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  Speaker 1: Another thunderbird is so Tooch, believed in by the natives
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  Speaker 1: of Vancouver's Island. He is a mighty bird dwelling aloft
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  Speaker 1: and far away, the flap of whose wings makes the thunder,
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  Speaker 1: and his tongue is the forked lightning. There were once
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  Speaker 1: four of these birds in the land, and they fed
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  Speaker 1: on whales. But the great deity Quatayat, entering into a well,
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  Speaker 1: enticed one thunderbird after another to to swoop down and
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  Speaker 1: seize him with his talons. Then he would plunge to
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the sea and drown it. Thus three
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  Speaker 1: of them perished, but the last one spread his wings
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  Speaker 1: and flew to the distant height, where he has since remained.
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  Speaker 1: The Dakotas say that thunder is a large bird flying
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  Speaker 1: through the air. Its bright tracks are seen in the
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  Speaker 1: air before you hear the clapping of its wings. The
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  Speaker 1: old bird begins the thunder, but its rumbling noise is
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  Speaker 1: caused by an immense quantity of young birds or thunders
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  Speaker 1: that do the mischief. They are like the young mischievous
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  Speaker 1: men that will not listen to good counsel. The old
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  Speaker 1: thunder is wise and good, and does not kill anybody,
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  Speaker 1: nor do any kind of mischief. The chief god of
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  Speaker 1: the Brazilians is a large bird who sweeps over the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: watching his children and watering their crops. He warns them
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  Speaker 1: of his presence by the mighty sound of his voice,
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  Speaker 1: the rushing of his wings, and the flash of his eye.
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  Speaker 1: This interesting bird is worshiped in a way befitting his nature.
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  Speaker 1: A dry gourd is filled with pebbles and decked with
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  Speaker 1: feathers and arrows, which has rattled vigorously to symbolize the
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  Speaker 1: drama of the storm. This curious implement has another element
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  Speaker 1: of interest in the fact that it is one of
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  Speaker 1: the earliest forms of musical instrument. An equally remarkable variety
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  Speaker 1: of bird is the wind bird, who wings his way
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  Speaker 1: through all mythologies in one form or another. Although the
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  Speaker 1: wind in Greece had risen to man's estate, it was
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  Speaker 1: still represented as having wings even the wind god. Hermes,
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  Speaker 1: far removed as he is from the Savage idea of
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  Speaker 1: the wind, could not get along without wings for his
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  Speaker 1: feet and head. Zeus also has a raven for his messenger,
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  Speaker 1: and Odin has the ravens Hugin and Munin, who fly
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  Speaker 1: every day over the whole world and report to him
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  Speaker 1: on their return what they have seen. Besides, there is
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  Speaker 1: a Norse god of the winds, a giant who sits
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  Speaker 1: in the northern extremity of Heaven clad in eagle's plumes.
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  Speaker 1: When he spreads out his wings for flight, the winds
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  Speaker 1: arise from under them. The thunder, however, like the wind,
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  Speaker 1: even among Savages, is sometimes personified as men, as in
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  Speaker 1: the following Algonquin stories how a hunter visited the thunder
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  Speaker 1: spirit who dwell in Mount Kataden Passamaquaddi ni Karnayu of
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  Speaker 1: old times. Once an Indian went forth to hunt, and
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  Speaker 1: he departed from the east branch of the Panobsca and
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  Speaker 1: came to the head of another branch that leads into
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  Speaker 1: the east branch. And this he followed even to the
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  Speaker 1: foot of Mount Katadin, And there he hunted many a
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  Speaker 1: day alone and met none till one morning in midwinter
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  Speaker 1: he found the track of snow shoes, so he returned
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  Speaker 1: to his camp. But the next day he met with
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  Speaker 1: it again in a far distant place. And thus it
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  Speaker 1: was that wherever he went, this track came to him
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  Speaker 1: every day. Then, noting this as a sign to be observed,
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  Speaker 1: he followed it and it went up the mountain Catadin,
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  Speaker 1: which being interpreted, means the great mountain, until at last
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  Speaker 1: it was lost in a hard snowshoe road made by
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  Speaker 1: many travelers. And since it was hard and even, he
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  Speaker 1: took off his agaumuk or snow shoes, and went ever
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  Speaker 1: on and up with the road. And it was a
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  Speaker 1: strange path, and strange was its ending, for it stopped
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  Speaker 1: just before a high ledge, like an immense wall, on
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  Speaker 1: a platform at its foot, and there were many signs
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  Speaker 1: there as of many people, yet he saw no one,
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  Speaker 1: and as he stayed it seemed to grow stranger and stranger.
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  Speaker 1: At last he heard a sound as of footsteps coming
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  Speaker 1: yet within the wall, when lo, a girl stepped directly
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  Speaker 1: out of the precipice upon the platform. But those she
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  Speaker 1: was beautiful beyond belief. He was afraid, and to his
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  Speaker 1: every thought, she answered in words and that so sweetly
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  Speaker 1: and kindly and cleverly, that he was soon without fear,
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  Speaker 1: though he saw that she had powerful matulin, or great
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  Speaker 1: magic power. And they being soon pleased one with the
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  Speaker 1: other and wanting each other, she bade him accompany her,
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  Speaker 1: and that by walking directly through the rock. Have no fear,
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  Speaker 1: said she, but advance boldly. So he obeyed, and lo,
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  Speaker 1: the rock was as the air, and it gave way
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  Speaker 1: as he went on. And ever as they went, the
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  Speaker 1: maiden talked to him, answering his thoughts, so that he
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  Speaker 1: spoke not aloud, and Anon. They came to a great
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  Speaker 1: cavern far within, and there was an old man seated
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  Speaker 1: by a fire, And the old man welcomed him. And
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  Speaker 1: he was very kindly treated by the strange pair all day.
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  Speaker 1: In all his life, he had never been so happy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as the night drew near, the old man said to
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  Speaker 1: his daughter, can you hear aught of your brothers? Then
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  Speaker 1: she went out to the terrace, and returning said no.
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  Speaker 1: Then Anon, he asked her again, and she, going and
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  Speaker 1: returning as before, replied, now I hear them coming. Then
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  Speaker 1: they listened, when lo, there came as at the door,
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  Speaker 1: without a crash of thunder, with a flash of lightning,
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  Speaker 1: and out of the light stepped two young men of
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  Speaker 1: great beauty, but like giants, stupendous and of awful mien.
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  Speaker 1: And like their father, their eyebrows were of stone, while
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  Speaker 1: their cheeks were as rocks. And the hunter was told
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  Speaker 1: by their sister that when they went forth, which was
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  Speaker 1: every few days, their father said to them, sons, arise,
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  Speaker 1: it is time now for you to go forth over
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  Speaker 1: the world and save our friends. Go not too near
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  Speaker 1: the trees. But if you see aught that is harmful
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  Speaker 1: to those whom we love, strike and spare not. Then
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  Speaker 1: when they went forth, they flew on high among the clouds.
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  Speaker 1: And thus it is that the thunder and lightning, whose
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  Speaker 1: home is in the mighty Catadin, are made. And when
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  Speaker 1: the thunder strikes, the brothers are shooting at the enemies
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  Speaker 1: of their friends. Now, when the day was done, the
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  Speaker 1: hunter returned to his home, and when there found he
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  Speaker 1: had gone seven years. All this I have heard from
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  Speaker 1: the old people who are dead and gone, the thunder
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  Speaker 1: and lightning men Passamaquaddy. This is truly an old Indian
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  Speaker 1: story of old time. Once an Indian was whirled up
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  Speaker 1: by the roaring wind. He was taken up in a
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  Speaker 1: thunder storm and set down again in the village of
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  Speaker 1: the thunders in after times. He described them as very
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  Speaker 1: like human beings. They used bows and arrows taubok, and
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  Speaker 1: had wings. But these wings can be laid aside and
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  Speaker 1: kept for use. And from time to time their chief
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  Speaker 1: gives these thunders orders to put them on, and tells
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  Speaker 1: them where to go. He also tells them how long
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  Speaker 1: they are to be gone, and warns them not to
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  Speaker 1: go too low, for it is sure death for them
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  Speaker 1: to be caught in the crotch of a tree. The
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  Speaker 1: great chief of the thunders, hearing of the stranger's arrival,
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  Speaker 1: sent for him, and received him very kindly, and told
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  Speaker 1: him that he would do well to become one of them,
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  Speaker 1: to which the man being willing, The chief soon after
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  Speaker 1: called all his people together to see the ceremony of
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  Speaker 1: thunder fying the Indian. Then they bade him go into
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  Speaker 1: a square thing or box, and while in it, he
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  Speaker 1: lost his senses and became a thunder. Then they brought
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  Speaker 1: him a pair of wings, and he put them on,
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  Speaker 1: so he flew about like the rest of the thunders.
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  Speaker 1: He became quite like them, and followed all their ways,
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  Speaker 1: and he said that they always flew toward the Sioux
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  Speaker 1: and Snook or south, and that the roar and crash
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  Speaker 1: of the thunder was the sound of their wings. Their
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  Speaker 1: great amusement is to play at ball across the sky.
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  Speaker 1: When they return, they carefully put away their wings for
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  Speaker 1: their next flight. There is a big bird in the south,
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  Speaker 1: and this they are always trying to kill, but never
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  Speaker 1: succeed in doing so. They made long journeys and always
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  Speaker 1: took him with them. So it went on for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, but it came to pass that the Indian
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  Speaker 1: began to tire of his strange friends. Then he told
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  Speaker 1: the chief that he wished to see his family on earth,
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  Speaker 1: and the Sagamore listened to him and was very kind.
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  Speaker 1: Then he called all his people together and said that
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  Speaker 1: their brother from the other world was very lonesome and
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  Speaker 1: wished to return. They were all very sorry, indeed to
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  Speaker 1: lose him, but because they loved him, they let him
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  Speaker 1: have his own way and decided to carry him back again. So,
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  Speaker 1: bidding him close his eyes till he should be on earth,
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  Speaker 1: they carried him down. The Indians saw a great thunder
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  Speaker 1: storm drawing near. They heard such thunder as they never
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  Speaker 1: knew before. And then something in the shape of a
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  Speaker 1: human being coming down with lightning. Then they ran to
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  Speaker 1: the spot where he sat, and it was their long
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  Speaker 1: lost brother who had been gone seven years. He had
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  Speaker 1: been in the thunder world. He told them how he
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  Speaker 1: had been playing ball with the thunder boys. Yes, how
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  Speaker 1: he had been turned into a real thunder himself. How
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  Speaker 1: golose Cup bound Wadjosun the great wind bird, and made
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  Speaker 1: all the waters in the world stagnant. Passamaquodi. The Indians
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  Speaker 1: believe in a great bird called by them wu Chausen
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  Speaker 1: or wad Josuin, meaning wind blow or the wind blower,
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  Speaker 1: who lives far to the north and sits upon a
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  Speaker 1: great rock at the end of the sky. And it
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  Speaker 1: is because whenever he moves his wings, the wind blows.
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  Speaker 1: They of old times called him that. When glues Cup
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  Speaker 1: was among men, he often went out in his canoe
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  Speaker 1: with bow and arrows to kill sea fowl. At one time,
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  Speaker 1: it was every day very windy. It grew worse. At
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  Speaker 1: last it blew a tempest, and he could not go
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  Speaker 1: out at all. Then he said, Wadjosuin, the great bird
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  Speaker 1: has done this. He went to find him. It was
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  Speaker 1: long ere he reached his abode, he found, sitting on
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  Speaker 1: a high rock a large white bird. Grandfather said, Gluse Cup,
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  Speaker 1: you take no compassion on your cusasek your grandchildren. You
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  Speaker 1: have caused this wind and storm. It is too much.
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  Speaker 1: Be easier with your wings. The giant bird replied, I
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  Speaker 1: have been here since ancient times, in the earliest days,
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  Speaker 1: ere aught else spoke. I first moved my wings. Mine
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  Speaker 1: was the first voice, and I will ever move my
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  Speaker 1: wings as I will. Then goose Cup rose in his might.
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  Speaker 1: He rose to the clouds. He took the great bird,
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  Speaker 1: giant Wadjosin, as though he were a duck, and tied
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  Speaker 1: both his wings and threw him down into a chasm
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  Speaker 1: between deep rocks, and left him lying there. The Indians
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  Speaker 1: could now go out in their canoes all day long,
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  Speaker 1: for there was a dead calm for many weeks and months,
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  Speaker 1: and with that all the waters became stagnant. They were
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  Speaker 1: so thick that Gluis Cup could not paddle his canoe.
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  Speaker 1: Then he thought of the great bird and went to
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  Speaker 1: see him as he had left him. He found him,
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  Speaker 1: for wad Josin is immortal, so raising him he put
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  Speaker 1: him on his rock again and untied one of his wings.
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  Speaker 1: Since then, the winds have never been so terrible as
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  Speaker 1: in the old time. The wonderful exploits of pau Pukcuus,
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  Speaker 1: a man of large stature, found himself standing alone on
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  Speaker 1: a prairie. He thought to himself, how came I here?
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  Speaker 1: Are there no beings on this earth but myself. I
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  Speaker 1: must travel and see. I must walk till I find
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  Speaker 1: the abode of men. So soon as his mind was
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  Speaker 1: made up, he set out. He knew not whither in
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  Speaker 1: search of habitations. He was a restolate fellow, and no
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  Speaker 1: difficulties could turn him from his purpose. Neither prairies, rivers, woods,
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  Speaker 1: nor storms had the effect to daunt his courage or
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  Speaker 1: turn him back. After traveling a long time, he came
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  Speaker 1: to a wood in which he saw decayed stumps of trees,
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  Speaker 1: as if they had been cut in ancient times, but
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  Speaker 1: no other trace of men. Pursuing his journey, he found
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  Speaker 1: more recent marks of the same kind. After this he
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  Speaker 1: came upon fresh traces of human beings, first their footsteps,
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  Speaker 1: and then the wood they had felled lying in heaps.
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  Speaker 1: Pushing on, he emerged toward dusk from the forest and
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  Speaker 1: beheld at a distance a large village of high lodges
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  Speaker 1: standing on rising ground. I am tired of this dog trot,
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  Speaker 1: he said to himself. I will arrive there on a run.
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  Speaker 1: He started off with all his speed. On coming to
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  Speaker 1: the first lodge, without any especial exertion, he jumped over
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  Speaker 1: it and found himself standing by the door. On the
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  Speaker 1: other side. Bowse within saw something pass over the opening
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  Speaker 1: in the roof, and then they heard a thump upon
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  Speaker 1: the ground. What is that, they all said, and one
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  Speaker 1: ran out to sea and invited him in. He found
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  Speaker 1: himself in company with an old chief and several men
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  Speaker 1: who were seated in the lodge. Meat was set before him,
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  Speaker 1: after which the old chief asked him whither he was
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  Speaker 1: going and what was his name. He answered that he
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  Speaker 1: was in search of adventures, and that his name was
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  Speaker 1: Paw Pucuus. They all opened their eyes upon the stranger
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  Speaker 1: with a broad stare. Paw Pucuus whispered one to another,
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  Speaker 1: and a general titter went round. They invited him to
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  Speaker 1: stay with them, which he was inclined to do, for
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  Speaker 1: it was a pleasant village, but so small as constantly
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  Speaker 1: to embarrass Paw Pucuus. He was in perpetual trouble whenever
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  Speaker 1: he shook hands with a stranger to whom he might
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  Speaker 1: be introduced. Such was the abundance of his strength. Without
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  Speaker 1: meaning it, he wrung his arm off at the shoulder
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  Speaker 1: once or twice in mere sport, he cuffed the boys
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  Speaker 1: about the lodge by the side of the head. They
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  Speaker 1: flew out of sight as though they had been shot
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  Speaker 1: from a bow, or could they ever be found again,
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  Speaker 1: though they were searched for in all the country round
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  Speaker 1: far and wide. If Paul Puckuus proposed to himself a
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  Speaker 1: short stroll in the morning, he was at once miles
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  Speaker 1: out of town when he entered a lodge. If he
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  Speaker 1: happened for a moment to forget himself, he walked straight
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  Speaker 1: through the leathern or wooden or earthen walls, as if
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  Speaker 1: he had been merely passing through a bush. At his meals,
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  Speaker 1: he broke in pieces all the dishes, set them down
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  Speaker 1: as lightly as he would, and putting a leg out
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  Speaker 1: of bed when he rose. It was a common thing
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  Speaker 1: for him to push off the top of the lodge.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted more elbow room, and after a short stay
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  Speaker 1: in which by the accidental letting go of his strength.
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  Speaker 1: He had nearly laid waste the whole place and filled
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  Speaker 1: it with demol lodges and broken pottery and one armed men.
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  Speaker 1: He made up his mind to go farther, taking with
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  Speaker 1: him a young man who had formed a strong attachment
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  Speaker 1: for him, and who might serve him as his pipe bearer.
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  Speaker 1: For Paw Pucuuis was a huge smoker, and vast clouds
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  Speaker 1: followed him wherever he went, so that people could say,
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  Speaker 1: Paw Puckcuis is coming by the mighty smoke he raised.
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  Speaker 1: They set out together, and when his companion was fatigued
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  Speaker 1: with walking, Paw Puckuis would put him forward on his
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  Speaker 1: journey a mile or two by giving him a cast
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  Speaker 1: in the air and lighting him in a soft place
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  Speaker 1: among the trees, or in a cool spot in a
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  Speaker 1: water pond among the sedges and water lilies. At other
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  Speaker 1: times he would lighten the way by showing off a
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  Speaker 1: few tricks, such as leaping over trees and turning round
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  Speaker 1: on one leg till he made the dust fly, at
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  Speaker 1: which the pipe bearer was mightily pleased. Although it sometimes
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  Speaker 1: happened that the character of these gambols frightened him, for
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  Speaker 1: pau Pucuus would, without the least hint of such an intention,
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  Speaker 1: jump into the air far ahead, and it would cost
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  Speaker 1: the little pipe bearer half a day's hard travel to
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  Speaker 1: come up with him. And then the dust paup Puncuus
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  Speaker 1: raised was often so thick and heavy as completely to
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  Speaker 1: bury the poor little pipe bearer and compel paw Pucuus
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  Speaker 1: to dig diligently and with might and main to get
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  Speaker 1: him out alive. One day they came to a very
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  Speaker 1: large village, where they were well received, after staying in
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  Speaker 1: it some time, in the course of which pau Pucuus,
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  Speaker 1: in a fit of abstraction, walked straight through the sides
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  Speaker 1: of three lodges without stopping to look for the door.
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  Speaker 1: They were informed of a number of wicked spirits who
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  Speaker 1: lived at a distance, and who made it a practice
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  Speaker 1: to kill all who came to their lodge. Attempts had
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  Speaker 1: been made to destroy them, but they had always proved
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  Speaker 1: more than a match for such as had come out
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  Speaker 1: against them. Paw Pucuus determined to pay them a visit,
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  Speaker 1: although he was strongly advised not to do so. The
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  Speaker 1: chief of the village warned him of the great danger
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  Speaker 1: he would incur. But finding Paw Pucuus resolved, he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: if you will go, being my guest, I will send
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  Speaker 1: twenty warriors to serve you. Paw Pucuus thanked him for
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  Speaker 1: the offer, although he suggested that he thought he could
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  Speaker 1: get along without them, at which the little pipe bearer grinned,
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  Speaker 1: for his master had never shown in that village what
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  Speaker 1: he could do, and the chief thought that he Paw Pucuis,
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  Speaker 1: would be likely to need twenty warriors at the least
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  Speaker 1: to encounter the wicked spirits with any chance of success.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty young men made their appearance. They set forward, and
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  Speaker 1: after about a day's journey, they descried the lodge of
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  Speaker 1: the Manitoes. Paw Pucuis placed his friend pipe Bearer and
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  Speaker 1: the warriors near enough to see all that passed, while
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  Speaker 1: he went alone to the lodge. As he entered, Paw
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  Speaker 1: Pucuus saw five horrid looking manitoes in the act of eating.
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  Speaker 1: It was the father and his four sons. They were
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  Speaker 1: really hideous to look upon. Their eyes were swimming low
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  Speaker 1: in their heads, and they glared about as if they
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  Speaker 1: were half starved. They offered pa Pucuus something to eat,
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  Speaker 1: which he politely refused, for he had a strong suspicion
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  Speaker 1: that it was the thigh bone of a man. What
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  Speaker 1: have you come for, said the old one, Nothing, answered
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  Speaker 1: Pau Pucuus. They all stared at him. Do you not
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  Speaker 1: wish to wrestle? They all asked, Yes, replied pap Pucuus,
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind if I do take a turn. Pipe bearer,
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  Speaker 1: who stood near enough to overhear the conversation, grinned from
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  Speaker 1: ear to ear. When he caught this remark, A hideous
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  Speaker 1: smile came over the faces of the Manitos. You go,
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  Speaker 1: they said to the eldest brother. The two got ready,
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  Speaker 1: the Manito and Pa Pucuus, and they were soon clenched
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  Speaker 1: in each other's arms for a deadly throat. Paw Pucuus
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  Speaker 1: knew their object his death. They wanted a taste of
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  Speaker 1: his body, and he was determined they should have it,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps in a different sense from that they intended. Haw Haw,
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  Speaker 1: they cried, and soon the dust and dry leaves flew about,
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  Speaker 1: as if driven by a strong wind. The Menito was strong,
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  Speaker 1: but Paw Pucuus thought he could master him, and all
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  Speaker 1: at once, giving him a sly trip. As the wicked
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  Speaker 1: spirit was trying to finish his breakfast with a piece
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  Speaker 1: out of his shoulder, he sent the Manito head foremost
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  Speaker 1: against a stone, and calling aloud to the three others,
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  Speaker 1: he bade them come and take the body away. The
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  Speaker 1: brothers now stepped forth in quick succession, but paw Pucuus,
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  Speaker 1: having got his blood up and limbered himself by exercise,
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  Speaker 1: soon despatched the three sending one this way, another that,
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  Speaker 1: and the third straight up into the air, so high
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  Speaker 1: that he never came down again. It was time for
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  Speaker 1: the old Manito to be frightened, and dreadfully frightened, he
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  Speaker 1: got and ran for his life, which was the very
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  Speaker 1: worst thing he could have done. For Paw Puckuus, of
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  Speaker 1: all his gifts of strength, was most noted for his
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  Speaker 1: speed of foot. The old Manito set off, and for
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  Speaker 1: mere sport's sake, paw Pucubus pursued him. Sometimes he was
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  Speaker 1: before the wicked old Spirit, sometimes he was flying over
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  Speaker 1: his head, and then he would keep along at a
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  Speaker 1: steady trot, just at his heels, till he had blown
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  Speaker 1: all the breath out of the old knave's body. Meantime,
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  Speaker 1: his friend pipe Bearer and the twenty young war cried out,
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  Speaker 1: ha ha ha ha ha, Paw Pucubus is driving him.
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  Speaker 1: Before him the Menito only turned his head now and
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  Speaker 1: then to look back at length. When he was tired
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  Speaker 1: of the sport. To be rid of him, Paw Puckuus,
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  Speaker 1: with a gentle application of his foot, sent the wicked
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  Speaker 1: old Manito whirling away through the air, in which he
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  Speaker 1: made a great number of the most curious turnovers in
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the world, till he came to a light, when it
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  Speaker 1: so happened that he fell astride of an old bull
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  Speaker 1: buffalo grazing in a distant pasture, who straightway set off
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  Speaker 1: with him at a long gallop. And the old Manito
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  Speaker 1: has not been heard of to this day. And of
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