Indian Why Stories by Frank Bird Linderman
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you can never get outside of it, if you run
your foolish legs off? Don't you know that I light all of my lodge every day and search it carefully? Don't you know that nothing can hide from me and live? I shall not harm you this time, but I warn you now, that if you ever steal from me again, I will hurt you badly. Now go, and don't let me catch you stealing again!' "Away went OLD-man, and on toward the west went the busy Sun. That is all. "Now go to bed; for I would talk of other things with my friend, who knows of war as I do. Ho! " OLD-MAN AND HIS CONSCIENCE Not so many miles away from the village, the great mountain range so divides the streams that are born there, that their waters are offered as tribute to the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans. In this wonder- ful range the Indians believe the winds are made, and that they battle for supremacy over Gunsight Pass. I have heard an old |
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