The Oregon daily journal., March 02, 1907, COMIC SECTION 2, Image 20

THE OREGON DAILY, JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH V 1907
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' - 7 . '. V It wt now tb moath o Mrch which ia WindcfO Land ia cUl "Onab-bun- KwU," or "Tb Mootv-o-th-Cnitt-on-th
, , , Saow" nd lthouth Umc wu tfll a ood crust oa top, th mow underneath mi (rowing rerjr soft and rauchj'. On day Uttlc
Growling Bird and Yallow Hair built up a big firt in their anug littjk (hoW House, intandLtg to cook something nice later on. They
"' , , fou they had used up an their firewood, so they weiit e to the pUce where a de
" dry atkks for fueL J When they cam back they were d unbounded to see that the big snowdrift id which they bad dug out tbauvplay 4
'.' v housa had caved n and their nice Snow Lodge was in ruins. There was nothing left, to mark the place but the smoke still rising from ;
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; - Growling Bird thought that maybe Segwun, the Spring Spirit, had passed by and breathed on the snowdrift, but it wm-bw--'I.
" -f r. ' likely that the many fires they bad mad in the fireplace had thinned and weakened the walls and roof so that Jhe big fir they had Just j :
. j I made had fintohed the business. Whfle th
' . ; . heard yclpa and howls coming through the snow heaps where their little playhouse had been. - Thia was tary Strang, and frightened ;, i '
I ' ' Tallow Hair greatly. .But Growling Bird had hi tomahawk with "hire, and. besides, the Wigwam and Nokomis war close at hand, so ' V
J tariouasaid it must ba a .ah4n" a Magician, and, therefor veiy dange '; ' " ; v j -
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Suddenly there popped up. through the snow the shaggy bead of a big OKAY
WOLF! Yedow Hair thought ft was Mah-een-gun. the Bad Old Wolf, and Started to. , , ,
.fun, but Growling Bird grasped bis tomahawk firmly and stood his ground. The Crow
-we going fly to the Wigwam to gat tha Magic Arrows so that Growbng Bird could " -'
shoot and kill the beast before it could get its legs dear. , Bu the Orsy Wolf cried, out:' 'X-
"Not No! rm.NOT thBadWoUr Tm Mother WoU, and wasnt doing any BarmrV )
A Mother Wolf crawled from beneath the snow pile ah shad a great many tear
and was very humble, indeed. She was afraid of the Magic Arrow and didn't want to
quarrel, so she whimpered and said: "My husband, tha Big Wolf (ah didn't want W :
say the "BAD WOLF." you see) "ia sick in bed and my little cub are starring, v I van.
" tured into' the Refuge Ground to beg a few scrap of meat from Nokomis whan I no
- tked smoke coming from the little snow house, and, seeing no one about, 1 want inside
to warm myaalf at the fire, when suddenly the roof fell in and nearly smothered mar "
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Thea i she howled quit dismally and shed aom men tear. V'Can't you gi bm '
- bit of leather or an old moccasin to take bom to my acanring children?" b whined. - t
Now the children, and even Aundak and Little Bear, war always troubled and aoery.-rt '
' whan they heard of any on being so very hungrymaybe it was because they bad auch ' '
fuMraeahhy appetite themselves I v Anyway. Yellow, Hair and Little Bear, knowmg"; ' t . "
L now bow matter stood, hurried elf to the Wigwam to ask Nokonus to let tJMm takeube
food that was left ever from breakfast and gave it to She-Wolf and her atarvini cub. rr
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. When Nokomis heard the tory ah couldn't refuse them, although she did not trust the Wolf People any too much. But in the V
ood of the Far North, when Pe-bosn. the Winter, cover the ground with deep (now. Puk-uday-wln. the Hunger Spirit, grow very J
bolj and pinche all th wild things very cruelly. Th Indians fear blm almost as much as the ghostly Wmdcgtjei. and they always :
share their food with any on who is trying to escape his clutches, aThat is why Nokomis and th children had pity oh Mother Wolf. T
end ah told YUow Hair and Littl Black Bear o take the big iroa pot of the fire" end let She-Wolf est all that was (aft w It. She
' l-m. beidc. some smoke-dried Whtteftsh to be tied m bundle so that Mother Wok? could carry them borne to her hungry cube,
Then she took hef big ax and went along to see that everything wa all right - - -. , -v ,
You should have Seen- Mother WoU suck her heed in the not and cobble tin the
Ben. to she at up every Speck of Hand licked the pot clean. , Growling Bird then gsvs her th bundle of fish to carry home to her little
:.; cub. She thanked them all very much and laid she would not forget their kindness. , v V
r- And ' ln when any one i very hungry the Indian say: "Waugh I He I a hungry as the Gray She-Woif with cubsr
I And further, they say that sometimes when a little, boy ha been lost in th wood and ha crept into a she-wolfs dsn where there .' .
, ire cube, the mother wolf baa fed and taken care of him, not harming him at all I Maybe it is one of THIS Mother Wolf relative
who knows ths atory and is trying to repay th kmdnesa of Little Growling Bird. .. ' ( A.T.C.
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