This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...off a piece from the liver; then the girl with both hands reached and caught his legs, and he tried to fly, but she held on, and he turned into her brother again. She caught him and held him, for she was so glad to have him back. The boy said: " Do not hang on to me so tight, for I will not leave you; I shall ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...off a piece from the liver; then the girl with both hands reached and caught his legs, and he tried to fly, but she held on, and he turned into her brother again. She caught him and held him, for she was so glad to have him back. The boy said: " Do not hang on to me so tight, for I will not leave you; I shall be with you all the time." Then the girl looked around, 4and she saw the rat as he was going away, so she knew it was the rat that helped her. They were very hungry, and so they started, and the boy told his sister to sit down, and that he would try and get something to eat. He went, and, without the girl knowing it, turned into an eagle and got a rabbit, and so they made a fire and roasted the rabbit. They went on, and the next day the boy went out again, and he brought two or three rabbits, and so all the way, until they finally reached their little tipi. Here they stayed, and the boy would go off, and return with many rabbits and sometimes a young deer. After a time he began to kill larger game, so that they now had plenty to eat. Then this boy told the girl that he was going to their village to get seeds for her, and would turn into an eagle; and she did not like it, for she was afraid that he would leave her. But he became an eagle and flew to the village, where the people had gathered their crops, and would steal a bag of corn and take it to their tipi. (So from that time to this, whenever the Indians lose their seed-corn, they say: " The eagle must have been here and carried away my seed-corn.") The boy brought the seeds to his sister, so that she made a corn-field, and each year she enlarged it, until she had a great field. So they prospered; for many years the people wandered over the plains, and after a time came to the camp of...
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