The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends

covered with orchard moss that it seemed gray with age. As little Luke was passing one day, he noticed a round hole

so quickly that he almost fell to the ground. Just then he heard someone in the branches of the tree above him. "Whee-ree, whee-ree," sounded

-chee; "so she sc

moved his hand

t-chee in there. She doesn't like to be disturbed, and she

e little boy; "I didn't know. I only

d you. Perhaps, if you ask her politely,

re are some nice flies and bugs out here, and besides, if you will be

e, "I'll do anything to oblige you, when

ied birds. They each wore a coat of butternut brown, mixed with olive

e very careful." And so he was. He looked down into the hole, where he saw five creamy-white eggs, stre

ttle boy. "How did that come there? Did the sna

w that A-tos-sa the Snake sheds his skin when it grows old and stiff, and grows a new one

tle boy. "I wouldn't want such a thing around m

erever you find a home of one of our tribe, there you will find a snake-skin. I've heard my grandfather say that our

said the little boy. "I'm sure

ing to please you