Then down dropped the deer and the maid.
Ere the sun reached the midst of his journey,
Her red, welcome burden she laid
at the feet of her famishing father.
_Waziya's_ wild wrath was appeased,
and homeward he turned to his _teepee_,[3]
O'er the plains and the forest-land breezed
from the Islands of Summer the South-wind.
From their dens came the coon and the bear;
o'er the snow through the woodlands they wandered;
On her snow-shoes with stout bow and spear
on their trails ran the huntress Winona.
The coon to his den in the tree,
and the bear to his burrow she followed;
A brave, skillful hunter was she,
and Ta-te-psin's lodge laughed with abundance.
[BO] _Waziya's_ Star is the North-star.
[Illustration]
[BP] A strap used in carrying burdens.
[BQ] Wolves sometimes attack people at night, but rarely, if ever, in
the day time. If they have followed a hunter all night, and "treed" him,
they will skulk away as soon as the sun rises.
DEATH OF TA-TE-PSIN.
The long winter wanes. On the wings
of the spring come the geese and the mallards;
On the bare oak the red-robin sings,
and the crocus peeps up on the prairies,
And the bobolink pipes, but he brings
of the blue-eyed, brave White Chief no tidings.
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