. Red folk and wild folk;. • e 11 e d thecoon, and hebit the babyscheek. That .^^^^ made the baby cry, and the coon ran away, because he knewthe mother would hurry home when she heard thecrying, and then she would know who had bitten thebaby. When the mother heard her baby crying, shehurried home and saw the h\Q- bite in her little onescheek. She called her children ; but they did not an-swer, and she thought they had all been killed. Whohurt my baby ? asked the mother, and the little onetold by makino; sii^ns with its hands. It was the coon ! I will punish him, said thewoman, and off she ran
. Red folk and wild folk;. • e 11 e d thecoon, and hebit the babyscheek. That .^^^^ made the baby cry, and the coon ran away, because he knewthe mother would hurry home when she heard thecrying, and then she would know who had bitten thebaby. When the mother heard her baby crying, shehurried home and saw the h\Q- bite in her little onescheek. She called her children ; but they did not an-swer, and she thought they had all been killed. Whohurt my baby ? asked the mother, and the little onetold by makino; sii^ns with its hands. It was the coon ! I will punish him, said thewoman, and off she ran into the forest for some Ion-. THE PUNISHMENT OF TMR COON. switches. Then she started after the coon. She foundhim. a great way off, resting on a rock near a hike. I ha\e }-OLi ! Why did you kill my children andhite my little one ? There ! there ! and there ! andthe woman hit so hard that she raised great black andblue stripes. With each stroke the coon became smaller, andwhen he was very small, the woman said : You will always carry the marks of my beating,and neither you nor any of }our family will e\er growanv bii£iifer than \ou are now. The coon has remained small and carries the blackmarks of his beating to this day. The frogs in the lake heard the noise and cameto the top to see what could be the matter. The an-imals of the forest, also crept out and watched. Croak, croak, croak ! laughed the frogs, andthat made the coon terribly angry, so he answered ; I will eat you in the future and spare none of yourfamily ; but the frogs onl}- laughed harder, and theother animals laughed with them. After the old woman \
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