The white canoe, and other legends of the Ojibways . e and wonderful life, stran-ger even than the punk which kindled the magicfire, or the beavers tooth which started themighty river, stranger than the jasper moun-tain and all the things which she had seen in-side, for as O-me-me poured the handful of fishscales into the blackened hollow log there cameout at the bottom a stream of beautiful glitter-ing wampum, which rolled over the dark floor ofthe wigwam and lay like bits of broken rain-bow in the ashes of the fire. Then O-me-me knew that in this manner herfathers promise would be made good,
The white canoe, and other legends of the Ojibways . e and wonderful life, stran-ger even than the punk which kindled the magicfire, or the beavers tooth which started themighty river, stranger than the jasper moun-tain and all the things which she had seen in-side, for as O-me-me poured the handful of fishscales into the blackened hollow log there cameout at the bottom a stream of beautiful glitter-ing wampum, which rolled over the dark floor ofthe wigwam and lay like bits of broken rain-bow in the ashes of the fire. Then O-me-me knew that in this manner herfathers promise would be made good, that herewas given her a mine of wealth which would se-cure for her all the comforts which she desired, 138 The White Canoe and that never should she know hunger, or cold,or weariness again. As O-me-me gathered the wampum from thefloor of the wigwam, the breeze which stirredthe grasses of the meadow, the rippling waters ofthe brooklet, and the robin on the lodge poleall sang together in one melodious chorus:Welcome, welcome home, O-me-me! THE .* ^ % J^. V 0 r .
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