Algonquin Indian Tales

as Carried Away by Annungitee, and

the boys of the old times amon

r this morning brother and papa had to have a 'settlement,' and it might

othing threw her into a rage quicker than for anyone to cross him or even to question the wisdom of anything he said. Now, indign

was wrong of me to whack that Indian boy with my bat as I did, and I ought to have been punished; so if

quick to admit that he had been in the wrong, quite pacified Mary, and s

were man-eaters and, of course, were always to be feared. Some Indians were in such fear of these cannibals that they w

was said that he could not see really good boys; that they were like glass, and he could not see them. But when a boy became very b

alo bulls when they are going to fight each other. Even when he tried to move softly there would be sounds like birds and beasts crying out. All the Indians who had heard this great terrible fellow were afraid of him, and yet no two were able to give the same description of him. But they did agree on one thing, and that was that when he caught a very wicked man, which he did some

starving. His mother cut the wood, carried up the water from the distant river, dressed the skins of the animals that were shot by her husband, and did all the work of the wigwam. The boy would not lift a finger to help in any way. One day the mother, who wa

ll put you out of the wigwam, and An

she had often said to him, when she was angry with him, 'I do hope a ghost will catch you.' But the more she talked to him the worse he became. So one day when he had been very lazy and very rude to her she sprang up and, se

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his crying and his efforts to get into the wigwam ceased, and all became still and silent. His mother listened attentively, and every moment expected to hear his voice again, but there was no sound except something like the sound of the singing of birds and the

ted the lodges of all the people around. But no one had seen or heard anything of the missing boy. They returned to their own silent wigwam very sorrowful,

f bells ringing and owls hooting. This happened severa

host, take tha

usband what she had heard during

host Annungitee h

ry angry when he he

to him, and he has taken you at your word. So

voice and cried out so loud that i

to-night I will hide in the pile of wood that is outside the wigwam, and if the ghost comes along agai

after a while she heard the sound of bells ringing and animals soft

ig as he was, she had a mother's loving heart after all, and as she thought of her boy fastened up there in one of his big ears she was determined to rescue him if possible. So she cautiously moved along until she was able to seize one of his l

could hardly stand. But they helped him into the wigwam and gave him

d away, and was never seen in that part of the country again. Some tribes say he went South, and there, when he was steal

boy get better?"

the fright he had had. It did him good, however, for after that he was

Sagastao, who had not been altogether s

hout out at her boy such words as, 'I hope the ghost will catch you,' or any other

id both the children. "A

nd Cuffy! The two splendid dogs were the ch