She did not, however, forget the land of her birth.
Every season, on the same night as that upon which her disappearance
from her tribe had been wrought, there were to be seen two trouts of
enormous size playing in the water off the shore. They continued
their visits till the palefaces came to the country, when, deeming
themselves to be in danger from a people who paid no reverence to the
spirits of the land, they bade it adieu forever.
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THE STAR WIFE
In the days when the buffalo raced and thundered over the earth and
the stars danced and sang in the sky, a brave young hunter lived on
the bank of Battle River. He was fond of the red flowers and the blue
sky; and when the rest of the Indians went out to hunt in waistcloths
of skin he put on his fringed leggings all heavy with blue beads, and
painted red rings and stripes on his face, till he was as gay as the
earth and the sky himself. High-feather was his name, and he always
wore a red swan's feather on his head.
One day, when High-feather was out with his bow and arrows, he came on
a little beaten trail that he had never seen before, and he followed
it--but he found that it went round and round and brought him back to
where he had started.
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