The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1907, Page 20

.. THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY -CALL. TKAYGET-YES! e HE TURNED ) i ALL ,'TE S5 Little Growling Bird and Fanny Yellow Hair were very proud of the nice large Snow Cave they had made. They called it “Koonee We-gummig,” Snow House, and used to spend a great deal of their time in it. They laid in a good supply of com and Growling Hird was very much grieved to hear what had befailen his friend Wahboos and atarted off at once to find him, 3 Aundak showing the way. When they came-to the spot where he lay Little Bear smelled him all over. “Oof!” he said. “Rabbit potatoes and nuts, which they roasted in the hot ashes whenever they felt hungry. Growling Bird told Yellow Hair many In- i x: S 2 e = EBLIM dian stories and legends that he had learned from Nokomis and Bjg Bear, and"Yellow Hair repeated all the fairy tales she had oot Bead. - Ho amell watm, littlo bit) Me hear His heart go ‘tick! tick? ™ Growling Bird took the poor rabbit in his arms, and heard when she lived at home with her own people, the Palefaces. One day Aundak, the Crow, came and called the children out- side the-snow house and told them there was a rabbit lying frozen-in the snow among the Spruce Trees. It's your old ftiend “Wahboos,’ I believe,” said Aundak. 9 ¥ e st thing he noticed was a string hanging from his neck.* He looked at it closely and saw it was a deer sinew, very stron= and tough, which was looped around Rabbit's throat so tight it had almost choked him. “Waugh?” he said. “Bad man set snare, catch Wahboos round neck!” Copyright, 1907, by The North Americam Company Growling Bira unioosed the tight cord that was choking Rabbit, and then they all “Long time ago,” began Growling Bird, “Wahboos have brown fur all time. . “But Nanna-boozhoo can no do that. He go see Pe-boan, Winter Spirit, an’ burried back to the Snow Lodge, hoping the warmth of the camp-fire would revive Heap fine in summer; same color dead leaves on ground. Wahboos got ‘plenty Km&wvfipflfi They talk heap meditine talk—mebbe two, three day! Then him. When they arnved Growling Bird threw fresh wood on the fire, while Yellow enemy; all animal hunt him, but he sit still among dead leaves — they no see him they give Wahboos plenty snow-soup for medicine drink. By'mby he turn all none. By’mby Pe-boan, Winter, come; all white snow; see Wahboos plenty quick, white; no can see him no more when he sit still! When Segwun, Spring Spirit, then! ' He run all time; grow heap much fur on big hind feet. No good; animal comé he touch Wahboos'and he come brown again, for summertime. He change chase him daytime; chase him night-time? He (oueNuu—bopahoo. an’ say: ‘No all time, now, that way!” While Growling Bird was telling the story Rabbit re- it bisd, so me fly up in tree.” vived and got on his fect, but he felt terriby weak and sick! NICE_ROAST COR 7 ' | Ve e J/INOUNG PIG ' R e < 2 P (con e 7} RABBIT LIKE A YES, GROWLING / . : > : / DRINK OF WATER? ITEW/?S‘YOULNIL\’)l P MUDJE! — ; : B PLENTY S00 o : WHITE RABBIT ! ] N SET THE SNARE FOR #YHEAP BAD: - 7 % / ) f HOPE YOU'RE ME, NEAR THE / / i N ALL RIGHT Now! INDIAN VILLAGE! i ) s ) ‘ Hair spread a blanket and laid the half-frozen rabbit before the cheerful blaze. While they were waiting for Rabbit to come out of his swoon Growling Bird told Fanny, the legend of Wahboos, the big “Snowshoe Rabbit” of the Narth, and how he came \ to have a brown coat in summer and a white one ig winter” ; bR\ ; * - <{THANIC You! = VOV b AR 7 W \AY ) = (iliie ‘CAN‘T STAY; MUSTJ*"_ | POTATO HOT? [;HiiIAR W - f : " 3 ' Wire g ' ! FHEVLLBE Very ANXIOUS? o The children gave him roasted com to nibble on, and soon he was quite well and strong again. “He told them how he had mwvflhmm&lmvim“(-m‘Yom‘ufiz"find). Henidh:hdlgm’ih&emm&hp But before he reactied the Wigwam he fell exhausted in the snow, where the children found and regen as snares or traps, and hopping aiong the rablst paths, or‘runways, quite free and careless like. Suddenly he ran his him. \Well, be got out of his wouble THAT time, and, after he had.caten and drunk all he wanted, he Thanked the cbildrea and : i : 3 started off for his own house, knowing his wife and children would be hnxious aboat him. | head into the loop of a of deer sinew set there by ““Young Pig” for just such foolish rabbits. He squealed ang strug- : should rabbit i snare, and shouid rescue him and-treat him kindly; gled and would have choked to death had he not remembered in time what Big Bear had taught him. hhbgu::iu“ ‘ - _,:‘"f.’::"’m' it oy el e dlemiay s i oo gnaw the snare until he was free. “Young Pig” came to get him, when he heard him squeal, but he was a Jittle too fate. - Then 1 ’ ‘Wahboos ran.all the way back to the “Refuge Ground” to get some one to take off the cruehsnare ! \