. Wild life on the Rockies. hese flat and fluffy forestrugs, while between the tangled tops of the pinesI looked at the blue of the sky or watched thewhite clouds so serenely floating there. Many asummer night upon these elastic spreads I havelain and gazed at the thick-sown stars, or watchedthe ebbing, fading camp-fire, at last to fall asleepand to rest as sweetly and serenely as ever didthe Scotchman upon his heathered a morning I have awakened late after asleep so long that I had settled into the yieldingmass and Kinnikinick had put up an arm, eitherto shield my face with its
. Wild life on the Rockies. hese flat and fluffy forestrugs, while between the tangled tops of the pinesI looked at the blue of the sky or watched thewhite clouds so serenely floating there. Many asummer night upon these elastic spreads I havelain and gazed at the thick-sown stars, or watchedthe ebbing, fading camp-fire, at last to fall asleepand to rest as sweetly and serenely as ever didthe Scotchman upon his heathered a morning I have awakened late after asleep so long that I had settled into the yieldingmass and Kinnikinick had put up an arm, eitherto shield my face with its hand, or to show me,when I should awaken, its pretty red berries andbright green leaves. One morning, while visiting in a Blackfoot In-dian camp, I saw the men smoking kinnikinickleaves, and I asked if they had any legend concern-ing the shrub. I felt sure they must have a fasci-nating story of it which told of the Great Spiritslove for Kinnikinick, but they had none. Oneof them said he had heard the Piute Indians tell 178. W a ooo O WQD H< < < 3d w ss en (Ktnni&nicR why the Great Spirit had made it, but he could not remember the account. I inquired among many Indians, feeling that I should at last learn a happy legend concerning it, but in vain. One night, however, by my camp-fire, I dreamed that some Alaska Indians told me this legend: — Long, long ago, Kinnikinick was a small tree with brown berries and broad leaves which dropped to the ground in autumn. One year a great snow came while the leaves were still on, and all trees were flattened upon the ground by the weight of the clinging snow. All broad-leaved trees except Kinnikinick died. When the snow melted, Kinnikinick was still alive, but pressed out upon the ground, crushed so that it could not rise. It started to grow, however, and spread out its limbs on the surface very like a root growth. The Great Spirit was so pleased with Kinniki- nicks efforts that he decided to let it live on in its new form, and al
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