. The trail book . great shout joinhands as they ran all together down the naked 48 THE TRAIL TO THE SEA sand to worship the sea. But Taku-Wakin walkedby himself . . And did you stay there with him? askedOliver when he saw by the stir in the audiencethat the story was quite finished. We went back that winter — One-Tusk and I;in time they all went, said Arrumpa. It was toocold by the sea in winter. And the land in Taku-Wakins time it changed earth shook and the water ran out of the marshinto the sea again, and there was hard groundmost of the way to Two Rivers. Every ye
. The trail book . great shout joinhands as they ran all together down the naked 48 THE TRAIL TO THE SEA sand to worship the sea. But Taku-Wakin walkedby himself . . And did you stay there with him? askedOliver when he saw by the stir in the audiencethat the story was quite finished. We went back that winter — One-Tusk and I;in time they all went, said Arrumpa. It was toocold by the sea in winter. And the land in Taku-Wakins time it changed earth shook and the water ran out of the marshinto the sea again, and there was hard groundmost of the way to Two Rivers. Every year thetribes used to go down by it to gather sea food.: The Indians nodded. It was so in our time, they said. There weregreat heaps of shells by the sea where we came anddried fish and Shell Mounds, said Oliver. Ive heard ofthose, too. But I never thought they had storiesabout them. There is a story about every thing, said theBuffalo Chief; and by this time the children werequite ready to believe V HOW HOWKAWANDA AND FRIEND-AT-THE-BACK FOUND THE TRAIL TO THE BUFFALO COUNTRY TOLD BY THE COYOTE CONCERNING that Talking Stick of Taku-Wa-kins, -said the Coyote, as the company settledback after Arrumpas story,- -there is a Telling ofmy people . . not of a Rod, but a Skin, a hide ofthy people, Great Chief,1 - he bowed to the BullBuffalo, - - that talked of Tamal-Pyweack and aDead Mans Journey - The little beast stoodwith lifted paw and nose delicately pointed toAvardthe Bighorns country as it lifted from the prairie,drawing the earth after it in great folds, high crestbeyond high crest flung against the sun; light andcolor like the inside of a shell playing in its snow-filled hollows. 50 THE BUFFALO COUNTRY TRAIL Up sprang every Plainsman, painted shielddropped to the shoulder, right hand lifted, palmoutward, and straight as an arrow out of everythroat, the Heya-heya-huh! of the Indian saluta-tion. Backbone of the World! cried the you come over that, Li
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