Indian Why Stories by Frank Bird Linderman
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at him with many lances and would have killed
him but the Owl-chief cried, 'Stop!' "The young-man folded his arms and said: 'I am unarmed--come and see how a Black- foot dies. I am not afraid of you.' "'Ho!' said the Owl-chief, 'we kill no un- armed man. Sit down, my son, and tell me what you want. Why do you come here? You must be in trouble. You must smoke with me.' "The Unlucky-one told the Owl-chief just what he had told the old woman and the Beaver and the Coyote and OLD-man, and showed the stick that the white Beaver had given him and the arrow that OLD-man had given to him to prove it. "'Good,' said the Owl-chief, 'I can help you, but first you must help yourself. Take this bow. It is a medicine-bow; then you will have a bow that will not break and an arrow that is good and straight. Now go down this mountain until you come to a river. It will be dark when you reach this river, but you will know the way. There will be a great cottonwood-tree on the bank of the stream where you first come to the |
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