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19 - Old Man Stories: The Rolling Rock · Blackfeet Native American Stories

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  Speaker 1: Chapter nineteen of Blackfeet Indian Stories. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: Indian Stories by George B. Grinnell, Chapter nineteen, The Rolling Rock. Once,
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  Speaker 1: when old man was traveling about and felt tired, he
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  Speaker 1: sat down on a rock to rest. After he was rested,
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  Speaker 1: he started on his way, and because the sun was hot,
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  Speaker 1: he threw his robe over the rock and said to
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  Speaker 1: it here, I give you my robe because you are
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  Speaker 1: poor and have let me rest on you keep it always.
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  Speaker 1: He had not gone far when it began to rain,
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  Speaker 1: and meeting a coyote, he said to him, little brother,
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  Speaker 1: run back to that rock and ask him to lend
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  Speaker 1: me his robe. We will cover ourselves with it and
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  Speaker 1: keep dry. The coyote ran back to the rock, but
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  Speaker 1: presently returned without the robe. Where is the robe, asked
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  Speaker 1: old man? Why? Said the coyote the rock said that
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  Speaker 1: you had given him the robe and he was going
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  Speaker 1: to keep it. This made old man angry, and he
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  Speaker 1: went back to the rock and snatched the robe off it,
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  Speaker 1: saying I was only going to borrow this robe until
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  Speaker 1: the rain was over. But now that you have acted
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  Speaker 1: so mean about it, I will keep it. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need a robe anyhow. You have been out in the
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  Speaker 1: rain and snow all your life, and it will not
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  Speaker 1: hurt you to live so always. When he had said this,
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  Speaker 1: he put the robe about his shoulders, and with the
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  Speaker 1: coyote he went off into a ravine and they sat
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  Speaker 1: down there. The rain was falling, and they covered themselves
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  Speaker 1: with the robe and were warm and dry. Pretty soon
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  Speaker 1: they heard a loud, rumbling noise, and old Man said
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  Speaker 1: to the coyote, little brother, go up on the hill
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  Speaker 1: and see what that noise is. The coyote went off,
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  Speaker 1: but presently he came back, running as hard as he could, saying, run, run,
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  Speaker 1: the big rock is coming. They both started and ran
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  Speaker 1: away as fast as they could. The coyote tried to
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  Speaker 1: creep into a badger hole, but it was too small
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  Speaker 1: for him, and he stuck fast, and before he could
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  Speaker 1: get out, the rock rolled over him and crushed his hips.
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  Speaker 1: Old man was frightened, and as he ran, he threw
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  Speaker 1: away his robe and everything that he had on so
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  Speaker 1: that he might run faster. The rock was gaining on
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  Speaker 1: him all the time. Not far away on the prairie,
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  Speaker 1: a band of buffalo bulls were feeding, and old Man
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  Speaker 1: cried out to them, saying, oh, my brothers, help me,
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  Speaker 1: help me stop that rock. The bulls ran and tried
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  Speaker 1: to stop it, butting against it, but it crushed their heads.
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  Speaker 1: Some deer and antelope tried to help old man, but
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  Speaker 1: they too were killed. Other animals came to help him,
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  Speaker 1: but could not stop the rock. It was now close
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  Speaker 1: to old Man, so close that it began to hit
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  Speaker 1: his heels. He was just going to give up when
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  Speaker 1: he saw circling over his head a flock of night hawks.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my little brothers, he cried, help me, I am
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  Speaker 1: almost dead. The bull bats flew down, one after another
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  Speaker 1: against the rock, and every time one of them hid it,
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  Speaker 1: he chipped off a piece. And at last one hid
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  Speaker 1: it fair in the middle and broke it into two pieces.
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  Speaker 1: Then old man was glad. He went to where there
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  Speaker 1: was a nest of night hawks and pulled their mouths
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  Speaker 1: out wide and pinched off their bills to make them
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  Speaker 1: pretty and queer looking. That is the reason they look
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  Speaker 1: so to day. End of chapter nineteen, The Rolling Rock
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  Speaker 1: read by Kara Shallenberg on March sixteenth, two thousand eight,
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  Speaker 1: in San Diego, California,