The new world fairy book . his salt wigwam. Was it another salt wigwam? said Rennie. Perhaps it was, and perhaps it was the old one. Itwas all the same. The Little Spirit had plenty of magic,and he didnt mind how much of it he used to makehimself comfortable, but he wouldnt use any of it forother people unless they paid him well. When heheard them grumbling, he only said, Why dont yougo and hunt more buffalo and build new wigwams withtheir skins ? ? We have lost all our arrows, said the Chief, sohow shall we hunt ? I will give you plenty of arrows, said the LittleSpirit. So he began to dance a
The new world fairy book . his salt wigwam. Was it another salt wigwam? said Rennie. Perhaps it was, and perhaps it was the old one. Itwas all the same. The Little Spirit had plenty of magic,and he didnt mind how much of it he used to makehimself comfortable, but he wouldnt use any of it forother people unless they paid him well. When heheard them grumbling, he only said, Why dont yougo and hunt more buffalo and build new wigwams withtheir skins ? ? We have lost all our arrows, said the Chief, sohow shall we hunt ? I will give you plenty of arrows, said the LittleSpirit. So he began to dance and shout again. Theycried out to him to stop, but he was shouting so loudthat he couldnt hear anybody else. He went on dancingand shouting, and he whirled himself about, and thenhe took up a sharp stone from the river-side and threw THE LITTLE SPIRIT OF MASSAWUNK 169 it up into the air, and down came a shower of sharpstone arrow-heads. The Indians all ran away for shelterand crouched under the overhanging cut-bank of the. _CS-^==^-^-^,E£;*;^f ^-*^v=M*sis;-:3?Q v^^ ^ -if ^ The arrow-heads cut their canoes into pieces. river. It arrowed and it arrowed, and it went onarrowing all that day and all night too. Most of thewomen had gone on a journey to Massawee for tobacco ;but when they came paddling home that evening theypaddled right into the shower of arrow-heads, and thearrow-heads cut their canoes into pieces, and before lyo THE LITTLE SPIRIT OF MASSAWUNK they could get to shelter under the cut-bank they wereall killed and drowned. In the morning the Indianslooked out from their shelter and all the ground wascovered ten feet thick with sharp arrow-heads. Theycouldnt walk over the arrow-heads, so they waded upthe river, and there were so many arrow-heads at thebottom of the river that their feet were terribly cutbefore they came to a place where it had not there, if you please, stood the Little Spirit at thedoor of his wigwam of salt. Go and hunt buffalo, he said; I
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