True bear stories . TEUE BBAE STORIES. made the grizzly so strong that he fearedhim himself, and would have to go up ontop of the mountain out of sight of the for-est to sleep at night, lest the grizzly, who,as will be seen, was much more strong andcunning then than now, should assail himin his sleep. Afterwards, the Great Spirit,wishing to remain on earth and make thesea and some more land, converted MountShasta, by a great deal of labor, into a wig-wam, and built a fii^e in the center of itand made it a pleasant home. After that,his family came down, and they all havelived in the mountain ev
True bear stories . TEUE BBAE STORIES. made the grizzly so strong that he fearedhim himself, and would have to go up ontop of the mountain out of sight of the for-est to sleep at night, lest the grizzly, who,as will be seen, was much more strong andcunning then than now, should assail himin his sleep. Afterwards, the Great Spirit,wishing to remain on earth and make thesea and some more land, converted MountShasta, by a great deal of labor, into a wig-wam, and built a fii^e in the center of itand made it a pleasant home. After that,his family came down, and they all havelived in the mountain ever since. They saythat before the white man came they couldsee the fire ascending from the mountainby night and the smoke by day, every timethey chose to look in that direction. Theysay that one late and severe springtime,many thousand snows ago, there was agreat storm about the summit of MountShasta, and that the Great Spirit sent hisyoungest and fairest daughter, of whom hewas very fond, up to the hole in the top,. He took his daughter on his shoulder. —Pa^e 104. THE GEEAT GRIZZLY BEAR. 99 bidding her to speak to the storm thatcame up from the sea, and tell it to bemore gentle or it would blow the mountainover. He bade her do this hastily, and notput her head out, lest the wind shouldcatch her in the hair and blow her told her she should only thrust out herlong red arm and make a sign, and thenspeak to the storm without. The child hastened to the top and didas she was bid, and was about to return,but having never yet seen the ocean, wherethe wind was born and made his home,when it was white with the storm, shestopped, turned and put her head out tolook that way, when lo! the storm caughtin her long red hair, and blew her out andaway down and down the mountain she could not fix her feet in the hard,smooth ice and snow, and so slid on andon down to the dark belt of firs below thesnow rim. Now, the grizzly bears possessed all thewood and all the land down to
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