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The North Star; The Cobbler · The Art of Story-Telling by Julia Darrow Cowles

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  Speaker 1: The Art of story Telling with nearly half a hundred stories.
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  Speaker 1: of story Telling by Julia Darrow Coles, Section nineteen, The
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  Speaker 1: North Star, the Cobbler. Three Ajibwe hunters had been out
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  Speaker 1: hunting for meat for many days. It was in a
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  Speaker 1: new place. The woods were very thick, but there were
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  Speaker 1: no deer in them. Hunters had nothing to eat. They
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  Speaker 1: had no water, for there was none. They were lost
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  Speaker 1: in the thick forest. The hunters sat down and smoked
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  Speaker 1: the pipe of peace. They offered the smoke to the manitous,
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  Speaker 1: who might live in the woods. They asked the manitous
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  Speaker 1: to help them. The day sun was gone, and there
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  Speaker 1: was no night sun. The chief covered his head with
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  Speaker 1: his blanket and chanted, our wigrams will see us no more.
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  Speaker 1: We will stay here forever we can go no further.
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  Speaker 1: A little puckward Ginnie came out of the hollow tree
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  Speaker 1: when the chief had chanted his story. The little one
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  Speaker 1: was like a little papoose, but he was very old,
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  Speaker 1: and he knew very much, He said, I will help
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  Speaker 1: the hunters. I will show you the trail. He pulled
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  Speaker 1: the thick bushes apart, and the hunters followed. He found
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  Speaker 1: the trail, and he soon came upon a herd of
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  Speaker 1: deer feeding in the bush. The hunters shot too deer
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  Speaker 1: and ate much meat. They were stronger after they had
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  Speaker 1: eaten the meat. The little One did not eat. He
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  Speaker 1: was not hungry. There was no rain, and the hunters
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  Speaker 1: had no water. They lost their strength and could not
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  Speaker 1: walk on the trail. The Puckwegini left them. Then the
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  Speaker 1: hunters put their blankets over their heads and sat down.
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  Speaker 1: They said no words. They could not smoke the pipe
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  Speaker 1: of peace, for their strength was all gone. The little
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  Speaker 1: One came back with a deer skin full of drink
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  Speaker 1: for them. He poured it into their mouths. It was
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  Speaker 1: not water. It was like no drink they had ever
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  Speaker 1: had before. They became very strong and wanted nothing more
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  Speaker 1: to eat or drink. For more than one moon. He
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  Speaker 1: led them on a long trail to the land of
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  Speaker 1: his little people. He took them to his own chief.
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  Speaker 1: The chief was like a little papoose, but he knew
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  Speaker 1: all the trails in the forest. He knew all the
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  Speaker 1: trails in the sky. The little Chief showed the Ojibway
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  Speaker 1: chief the star in the north, the star that never moves.
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  Speaker 1: The little Chief showed them to watch this star not
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  Speaker 1: to lose their trail. He found their lost trail for
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  Speaker 1: them and sent them home. The three hunters came back
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  Speaker 1: to their own wigwams. They talked in the council and
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  Speaker 1: showed their people the star that never moves. Other nations
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  Speaker 1: and tribes know this star now, but the Ojibways believed
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  Speaker 1: that their people were the first to know where to
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  Speaker 1: find it in the great Blue Wigwam. The cobbler. Once
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  Speaker 1: upon a time there lived a cobbler who sat day
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  Speaker 1: after day in his shop, working away at his cobbler's last,
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  Speaker 1: just making shoes. After a time, he came to think
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  Speaker 1: that because he had made so very many pairs of shoes,
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  Speaker 1: he knew more about them than anybody else in the world.
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  Speaker 1: He grew puffed up with pride and was always looking
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  Speaker 1: for some way of showing his knowledge. One day, as
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  Speaker 1: he was walking in the public square of the town,
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  Speaker 1: he saw a statue which had been made by a
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  Speaker 1: great artist, and he discovered ha ha ha. He discovered
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  Speaker 1: that the shoe latchet of the structure was not made
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  Speaker 1: just right. Aha, he said, His chest swelled with pride
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  Speaker 1: and delight. Here is a statue made by the great artist,
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  Speaker 1: but he does not know how a shoe latchet is made.
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  Speaker 1: Surely I am greater than he. Then he began to
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  Speaker 1: look the statue over to see what other mistakes he
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  Speaker 1: might find, and after a while it seemed to him
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  Speaker 1: that the legs of the statue were not shaped just
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  Speaker 1: right either. I will go to the Lord Mayor of
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  Speaker 1: the town, he said to himself, and order the statue
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  Speaker 1: to be removed from our public square. So he went
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord Mayor's palace, and when he came into
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Mayor's presence, he said, may it please your honor,
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  Speaker 1: I have discovered great errors in the statue which is
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  Speaker 1: in our public square, and I have come to petition
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  Speaker 1: your honor to have it removed. Then the Lord Mayor
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  Speaker 1: looked the cobbler over gravely and asked, can you make
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  Speaker 1: a better statue to put in its place? At that
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  Speaker 1: the cobbler turned quite red and stammered, Oh, no, your honor,
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  Speaker 1: But I can make a better shoelatchet. Then Sir Cobbler replied,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Mayor, I would advise you to stick to
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  Speaker 1: your last end of Section nineteen