Episode Transcript
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this series is reading junior classics this
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is volume one Fairy and Wonder tales and
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we will be reading why the woodpecker
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has redhead feathers adapted by H. R.
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schoolcraft when his wounds had all been
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cured by his grandmother skill in medicine
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Manabozho as big and sturdy as ever
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was ripe for new adventures he set
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his thoughts immediately upon a war excursion
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against the pearl feather a wicked old
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manito living on the other side
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of the great lake who had killed
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his grandfather he began his preparations by
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marking making huge bows and arrows without
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number but until he had no arrowhead
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at last his grandmother Noko told him
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that an old man who lived
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at some distance could furnish him with
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some and he set her to get
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them though she returned with her wrapper
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full he told her that he had
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not enough to send and sent her
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again for more in the meantime he
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thought to himself i may just find
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out the way of making these heads
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instead of directly asking how it was
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done he preferred just like Manabozho
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to deceive his grandmother in order to
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learn what he wanted by a trick
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Noko he said why take my drum
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and rattle and sing my war songs
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do you go and try to
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get me some larger heads for these
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you have brought me are all the
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same size go and see whether the
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old man is not willing to make
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some a little larger he followed her
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at a distance as she went having
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left his drum at the lodge with
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a great bird tide at the top
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who is fluttering wings would keep up
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the drumbeat the same as if he
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were standing there beating the drum himself
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he saw the old workmen busy and
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learned how he prepared to the heads
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he almost beheld the old man's daughter
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who was very beautiful Manabozho discovered for
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the first the time that he had
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a heart of his own and the
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sleigh he in the sigh he heaved
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past you the arrow makers lodge like
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a young gale of wind My how it
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blows said the old man in must
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be from the south though said his
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daughter it's so fragrant Manabozho slipped away
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and in two strides he was at home
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shouting forth his songs as though he
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had never left the lodge he had
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just time to untie the bird which
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had in been beating the drum when his
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grandmother came in and gave him the
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big arrowheads in the evening the grandmother
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said my son you ought to fast
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before you go to war as your
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brothers do to find out whether you
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will become successful or not he said
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he had no objection having privately stored
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away in a shady place in the
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forest two or three dozen juicy
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bears a moose twenty strings of the
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tenderest birds he could he could
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retire from the large so far as
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to be entirely out of view of
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his grandmother and fall to and enjoy
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himself heartily at nightfall have being dispatched
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a dozen birds and half a bear or
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so he would return twittering and forlorn
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as if quite famished so as to
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make his grandmother feel sorry for him
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when he had finished his stern his
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term of fasting and the course of
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which he slyly dispatched twenty fat bears
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six dozen birds two fine moose
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Manabozho sung his wars song
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his war song and embarked in his
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canoe fully prepared for war besides his
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weapons he took along a shape a
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large supply of oil he traveled rapidly
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night and day and for he had
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only two will or speak and the
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canoe went at length he arrived in
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sight of the ferry serpents and stopped
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to study them he noticed that they
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were enormous were of enormous length and
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of a bright color that they were
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some distance apart and that the
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flames which poured forth from the mouths
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reached across the pass so he said
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good morning and began talking with
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them in a very friendly way they
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were not to be deceived however we
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know you Manabozho they said you
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cannot pass turning his canoe as if
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about to go back he suddenly cried
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out with a loud and terrified voice
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what's that behind you the serpents thrown
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off their guards and instantly turn their
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heads and in a moment Manabozho
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silently glided past them well said he
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softly after he had gotten by how
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about it he then took up his
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bow and arrows and with deliberate aim
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shot every one of them easily for
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the serpents were fixed to one spot
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it could not even turn around having
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thus escape to the sentinel serpents Manabozho
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pushed on in his canoe until he
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came to a part of the lake
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called pitch water as whatever touched it
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was sure to stick fast but Manabozho
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had prepared with his oil and rubbing
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his canoe freely with it from end-to-end
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he slipped through with ease he it
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was the first person who had ever
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succeeded in passing through pitch water nothing
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like a little oil said manzo bow
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to himself having by this time come
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into come in view of land he
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could see the lodge of the Shining Manito
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high upon a distant hill at
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the dawn of day he put his
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his clubs and arrows in order and
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began his attack yelling and shouting and
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beating his drum and calling out so
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as to make it appear that he
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had many followers surround him surround him
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went up ran out he stocked bravely
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forward shouting aloud it was you that
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killed my grandfather and shot off a
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whole forest of arrows the pearl feather
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appeared on the height blazing like a
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sun and paid back manzo with a
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tempest of bolts which rattled like hale
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all day long the fight was kept
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up and manzo had fired all of
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his arrows but three without effect for
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the Shining Manito was clothed in
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pure wampum but it was only by
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immense leaps to right and left that
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Manabozho could save his head from
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the sturdy blow which fell about him
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on every side like pine trees from
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the hands of Manito he was badly
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bruised and as this very wits end
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when he alarmed way in a large
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woodpecker flew past and lit on a
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tree it was a bird he had
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known on the prairie near his grandmother's
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lodge Manabozho called out the woodpecker
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your enemy has a weak point shoot
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at the lock on his hair
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shoot at the luck of hair on
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the crown of his head the first
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arrow he shot only drew a few
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drops of blood Manabozho made one or
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two unsteady steps but recovered himself he
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began to parlay but Manabozho know that
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he had discovered a way to reach
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him was in no reach him was
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in no humour to trifle and he
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let slip another arrow which brought the
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Shining Manito to his knees having the
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crown of his head within good range
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Manabozho shot his third arrow and the
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Manito fell forward upon the ground dead
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now that he called the woodpecker to come
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and receive a reward for the timely
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hint he had given him and he
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rubbed the blood of the Shining Manito
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on the woodpeckers head the feathers of
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which are red to this day full
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of his victory Manabozho returned home beating
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his war drum furiously and shouting aloud
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his son his song of triumph his
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grandmother was on the shore to welcome
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him with the war dance which she
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performed with wonderful skill for one so
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far advanced in years
