The name of the grove was 'Loma-Nashah' and it
means 'They-Couldn't-Help-It'."
"Doesn't sound like it."
"Indian names don't. There was a bad Indian chief lived in the grove
before the white settlers came. He was the worst Indian that ever
lived, and his name was--it was 'Vendonah.' That means 'Rides-Down-
Everything'."
"What?"
"His name was Vendonah, the same thing as Rides-Down-Everything."
"I see," said Eugene thoughtfully. He gave her a quick look and then
fixed his eyes upon the end of the garden path. "Go on."
"Vendonah was an unspeakable case," Lucy continued. "He was so proud
that he wore iron shoes and he walked over people's faces with them.
he was always killing people that way, and so at last the tribe
decided that it wasn't a good enough excuse for him that he was young
and inexperienced--he'd have to go. They took him down to the river,
and put him in a canoe, and pushed him out from shore; and then they
ran along the bank and wouldn't let him land, until at last the
current carried the canoe out into the middle, and then on down to the
ocean, and he never got back.
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