The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-11-18

do such things as he does.
But her sons paid on heed to this
wise advice, and raising g-eat war
cry. which frightened the birds who
heard nearly out of their feathers,
they started for the boys lodge among
the rocks.
The little spirit or BOWMAN, heard
them roaring forth their threats as they
but he did not appear to
be disauieted in the least His sister,
who did not as yet hear them, after
while went to the door, and seeing four
large men coming straight to their
lodge, wasin great fear, and running
in, exclaimed:
4" He is coming, four times as strong
rs ever" for she supposed that the one
man whom her brother had offended
had become SO angry as to make four
of himself in order to get revenge.
The boy man said, "Why do youmind
them? Give me something to eat.
GLOW can you think of eating at such
a time?" she replied.
''Do as L request you, and be quick, I"
he said.
She then gave the little spirit his
dish, and he commenced eating. Just
then the four brothers came to the
door.
See" said the sister, ''the man with
four heads.
The brothers were about to lift the
curtain at the door when the BOWMAN
turned his dish upside down, and i'm
mediately the curtain became stone,
upon which the four brothers set to
work and hammered with their clubs in
great fury till at length they made a
slight opening. One of the brothers
put his face at the little hole. The lit
tie spirit who had commenced eating
again took up his bowand arrow which
lay by his side, and let fly the shaft,
which, striking the man in the head,
he fell back. The boy-man merely
called out Number One, rs the man
fell, and went on with his meal In a
moment Il second face, just like the
first, appeared at the window, and the
little spirit fred his arrow and called
out Number Two, and continued his
meal.
The two others were quickly dis
patched iii the same way, and called as
they fell, Number three" and "Num-
Der four
After they were all disposed of III
this way, the boy-man directed his sis
ter to go out and see them. She pres
emily ran back, saying, "There are four
of them"
"Of course" said the BOWMAN,
"apd four there always shall be of
them" and, going out himself, the
10 i, H.,
feet, and giving each a push, one with
his face to the east, another to the
west, third to the south, and the last
to the north, he sent them to wander
about the earth and whenever YOU
see four men just alike they are the
four brothers whom the little spirit
dispatched upon their travels.
OF course there was great rejoicing
in the lodge over the triumph of the
little boy man over his enemies, and
that evening his sister said, as they
sat talking to each other in the dark,
by the light of each others eyes-for
they had no other light of any kind
my brother, it is strange that you,
who can do SO much, are no wiser than
the Rako, who gets all his light from
the moon, which shines OF not as it
pleases."
'And is not that light enough ~
asked the little spirit.
''Qulte enough, the sister replied,
eff it would but come within the lodge
and not sojourn out in the clouds"
eve will have Il light of our own,
sister" said the BOWMAN, and casting
himself upon "a mat by the door, com
menced singing
FREELY, FREELY bright little thing,
Light me to bed and my song will sing;
Give me your light, as you fly over my head,
That may merrily 90 to my bed.
Give me your light DER the grass as you creep,
That may joyfully go to my sleep;
Come little FREELY, come little beast,
Come, and T.! make you tomorrow feast.
Come little candle, that flies as sing,
Bright little fairy-bug, nights little king;
Come, and I'll dream you guide me along
Come, and I'll pay you, bright bug, with song.
AS the boy chantcd this call there
fitted In pretty little fly with a CLEAN
of light in its body that Frightened
the~lodge, then two and two, till ut
last, swarming in a little army, the
bright flashing Of the firchies lit up the
little lodge with thousand sparkling
lamps, INST us the stars were lighting
the mighty hollow of the sky without
The faces of the sister and brother
shone upon each other from their OPP
posite sides OF the lodge, with kindly
CLEAN of happy trust they had the
lamp OF the tiretlies to cheer them when
the sun went to rest, and no sorrow or
doubt darkened their little house