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hello this is reading junior classics volume
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one Fairy and Wonder Tales this is story
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one MANABOZHO the mischief maker adapted from
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h r schoolcraft there was never in
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the whole world a more miserable busy
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body than that of notorious giant Manabozho
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he was everywhere in season and out
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of season running about and putting his
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hand in whatever was going forward to
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carry on his game he could take
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almost any shape he pleased he could
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be very foolish or very wise very
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weak or very strong very rich or
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very poor just as happened to suit
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his humor best whatever whatever anybody else
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could do he would attempt without a
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moment's reflection he was a match for
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any man he met and there were
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a few minutos good spirits or evil
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spirits that could get the better of
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him by turns he would be very
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kind or cruel an animal or
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a bird or a man or a
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spirit and yet in spite of all
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these gifts Manabozho was always getting himself
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involved in all sorts of troubles more
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than once in the course of his
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adventures was this great maker of mischief
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driven to his wits and to come
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off with his life to begin at
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the beginning Manabozho while yet a
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youngster was living with his grandmother near
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the edge of a great prairie it
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was on this prairie that he first
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saw animals and birds of every kind
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he also they're made first acquaintance with
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thunder and lightning he would sit by
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the hour watching the clouds as they
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rolled by musing on the shades of
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light and darkness as they as the
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day rose and fell for a stripling
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Manabozho was uncommonly wide awake even sight
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he beheld in the heavens was a
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subject of remark every new animal or
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bird an object of deep interest and
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every sound was like a new lesson
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which he was expected to learn he
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often trembled at what he heard and
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saw the first sound he heard was
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that of an owl at which
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he was greatly terrified and quickly descending
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the tree he had climbed he ran
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with alarm to the lodge Noko! noko!
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grandmother he cried i have heard a
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monedo she laughed at his fears and
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asked him what kind of noise it
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made he answered it makes a noise
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noise like this cuckoo cuckoo his grandmother
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told him was his grandmother told him
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he was young and foolish that what
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he heard was only a bird which
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derives it's name from the particular noise
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it made he returned to the prairie
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and continued his watch as he stood
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there looking at the clouds he thought
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to himself it is singular that i
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am so simple and my grandmother so
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wise and that i have never and
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i have neither father nor mother i
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have never heard a word about them
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i must ask and find out he
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went home and sat down silent and
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dejected finding that this did not attract
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the notice of his grandmother he began
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a loud lamentation which he kept increasing louder
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and louder till it shook the lodge
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and nearly deafened the old grandmother Manabozho
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what is the matter with you she
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said you are making a great deal
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of noise Manabozho started off again with
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his doleful humble but succeeded and jerking
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out between his big sobs i haven't
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got any father nor mother i haven't
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knowing that he was of a wicked
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and vengeful nature his grandmother dreaded
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to tell him the story of his
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parentage as she knew he would make
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trouble of it Manabozho renewed his cries
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and managed to throw out for a
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third or fourth time his sorrowful lament
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that he was a poor unfortunate who
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had no parents or relatives at last
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she said to him to quiet him
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yes you have a father and three
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brothers living your mother is dead she
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was taken for a wife by your
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father the west without the consent of
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her parents your brothers are north east
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and south and being older than you
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your father has given them a great
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power with the winds according to their
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names you are the youngest of his
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children i have nursed you from your
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infancy for your mother died when you
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were born i am glad my father
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is living said Manabozho i shall set
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out in the morning to visit him
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his grandmother would have discouraged him
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saying it it was a long distance
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to the place where his father Ningabinn
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or the west lived this information
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seemed rather to please anti discouraged Manabozho
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for by this time he had grown
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to such a size and strength that
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he had been compelled to leave the
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narrow shelters of his grandmother lodge and
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live out of doors he was so
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tall that if he had been so
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disposed he could have snapped off the
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heads of the birds roosting on the
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topmost branches of the highest trees as
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he stood up without being able without
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being as the trouble to climb and
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if he had at any time taken
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enough fancy to one of the same
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trees for a walking stick he would
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have no more than to do to
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pluck it up with his thumb and
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finger and stripped down the leaves and
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twigs with the palm of his hand
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bidding good bye to his grandmother who
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pulled a very long face over his
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departure Manabozho set out at
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great pace for he was able to
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strike from one side or the prairie
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to the other in a single step
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he found his father on a high
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mountain far in the west his father
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spiced the approach at great distance and
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bounded down the mountainside several
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miles to give him welcome apparently delighted
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with each other they reached in two
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or three of their giant paces the lodge
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or the west which stood high up
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near the clouds they spent some days
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and talking with each other for these
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two great persons did nothing on a
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small scale and a whole day to
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deliver a single sentence such was the
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immensity of their discourse was quite an
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ordinary affair one evening manzo asked his
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father what he was most afraid of
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on earth he replied nothing but is
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there nothing you dread here nothing that
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would hurt you if you took too
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much of it come tell me Manabozho
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was very urgent so at last his
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father said yes there is a black
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stone to be found a couple of
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hundred miles from here over that way
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pointing as he spoke it is the only
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thing on earth i am afraid of
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for it should happen to hit
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me on any part of my body
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would hurt me very much no west
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made this important circumstance known to Manabozho
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in the strictest confidence now you will
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not tell any one Manabozho that the
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blackstone is bad medicine for your father
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will you he added you are a
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good son and i i know you
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will keep it to yourself not tell
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me my darling boy is there not
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is there enough not something that you
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don't like Manabozho answered promptly nothing and
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his father who was of steady and
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persevering nature but the same question to
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him seventeen times each time Manabozho
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made the same answer nothing but the
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west insisted there must be something you're
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afraid of well i will tell you said
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Manabozho what it is he made an
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effort to speak but it seemed to
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be too much for him out with
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it said the west fetching Manabozho such
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a blow on the back as shook
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his mountain with it's echo g g
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g it is said Manabozho apparently in
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great pain yes yes i cannot name
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it i trembled so the west told
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him to banish his fears and to
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speak up no one would hurt him
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manzo began again and he would never
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have gone over the same make believe
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make believe of pain had not his
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father whose strength he knew was more
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than a match for his own threatened
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to pitch him over into a river
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about five miles off now at last
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he cried out father sends you will
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know it is the root of the
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bulrush he who could with perfect ease
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spin a spindle of a whole day
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long seemed to be exhausted by the
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effort of pronouncing the outward bulrush sometime
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after Manabozho bow observed i will get
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some of the black rock merely to
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see how it looks well said the
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father i will also get a little
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bit of the bulrush root to learn
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how it tastes they were both double
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dealing with each other and in their
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hearts getting ready for some desperate work
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they had no sooner separated for the
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evening than manzo was writing off the
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couple hundred miles necessary to bring him
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to the place where the black rock
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was to be procured while down the
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other side of the mountain hurried Ningabinn
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the west at the break of day
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they eat at great level on the
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top mountain Manabozho was twenty loads
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at least of the black stone on
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one side and on the other side
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with whole meadow of bulrush in his
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arms Manabozho was the first to strike hurling
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a great piece of the black rock
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which struck the west directly between the
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eyes he returned the favor with a
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blow of bulrush that rung over the
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shoulders of Manabozho far and wide like
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a long lash of lightning among the
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clouds first one than the other mandible
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poured poured in a tempest of black
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rocks while their west discharged to shower
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a bulrush blow upon blow thorac upon
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the wac they fought hand to hand
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until blackrock and bulrush were all gone
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then they betook themselves to hurling
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crags at each other cudgeling with huge
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oak trees and defining each other from
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one mountain top to another or at
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times the shot enormous boulders of granite
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across at each other's heads as though
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they had been mere jack stones the
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battle which had commenced on the mouth
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mountains head extended far west the west
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was forced to give ground Manabozho pressing
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on drove him across rivers and mountains
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ridges and lakes til at last he
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got him to the very brink of
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the world hold cried the west my
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son you know my power and although
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i allow i am now fairly out
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of breath it is impossible to kill
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me stop where you are and i
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will also portion you out with as
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much power as your brothers the four
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quarters of the globe are already occupied
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but you can go and do a
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great deal good to the people of
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earth which is beset with serpents beasts
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monsters you make a great havoc of
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human life go and do good and
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if you put forth half the strength
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you have today you will acquire a
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name that will last forever when you
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have finished your work i will have
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a place provided for you you will
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then go and sit with your brother
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Kabinocca in the north Manabozho
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gave his father his hand upon this
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agreement and partying from him he returned
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to his own grounds where he lay
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for some time sore of his wounds
