rises to the heights of chivalry, patriotism, and real heroism.

"Let neither cold, hunger, nor pain, nor the fear of them,
neither the bristling teeth of danger nor the very jaws of death
itself, prevent you from doing a good deed," said an old chief to
a scout who was about to seek the buffalo in midwinter for the
relief of a starving people. This was his childlike conception of
courage.





V

THE UNWRITTEN SCRIPTURES

A Living Book. The Sioux Story of Creation. The
First Battle. Another Version of the Flood.
Our Animal Ancestry.

A missionary once undertook to instruct a group of Indians in the
truths of his holy religion. He told them of the creation of the
earth in six days, and of the fall of our first parents by eating
an apple.

The courteous savages listened attentively, and, after
thanking him, one related in his turn a very ancient tradition
concerning the origin of the maize. But the missionary
plainly showed his disgust and disbelief, indignantly saying:--