The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-11-12

ell. NOW lOr the news concerning tn
rigin of the fluent fits that the Bay O
indy has. I have taken it from tn
lOuth Of a Micmac and thrown it int
erse for convenience in landings
How it puzzles every white man r.
When the fOamIng, hump-baclzed ocean,
Like a big whale rushing inland
Dashes up the Bay of Fundy,
Climbs the shores of Minas Basin,
Sprawls above the salt-sea meadows,
Erolics on the sunny shadows,
Iill the moon, its mother, beckons
When afar it flies affrighted,
Like a bear that finds her twin cubs
Playing in a farmers garden.
Knowing nothing of the danger:
So scared ocean hurries homeward,
Sight that puzzles every white man.
But the Micmac knows the secret
Knows how he, the mighty Glooscap,
Chief Of chiefs and king Of hunters.
Living in his purple wigwam
Up among the clouds Of thunder,
Taught the lazy, hump-backed ocean
To arise and do his bidding:
And the story I will tell you.
Twas woman made the trouble.
Good was Glooscap, strong and tender,
ne was JhlleE Iuhu Dlne-Lree,
And he made the night and morning,
Gave the seed time and the harvest,
Split the raindrOps from his blanket,
Sent the lightning from his culver,
Painted blossoms on the hillside
Minas was his pond of beavers,
And the whales he drove to harness,
And the white bears were his bull dogs
And their nests the eagles builded
In the fOldIngs Of his mantle.
Listen 'Iis the truth L tell you
All around his purple wigwam
Carbon and deer were sporting.
Foxes, squirrels, wolves and panthers;
Men and beasts all spoke one language
And together dwelt as brothers,
While great GlOOscap smiled upon them.
Kept them warm and gave them plenty,
She, his squaw, he decked in jewels
Bands Of gold upon her forehead,
Strings Of jaCinth in her tresses,
Calclte crystals for her ear-drops,
Meath her nose a bell Of rubies,
And her robes was seWed with silver.
With embroidery Of sapphire;
While her armlets and her anklets
Wore such chains Of jade and jasper,
Diamond, amethyst and opal,
That when strolling near her Wigwam
In the forest-trails of heaven,
Many a fisher in his shallOp
Shouted DER the Bay of Fundy,
'See A new star yOnder lighted ="
Listen 'Iis the truth I tell you
She had all that earth could give her
All, and yet she was unhappy,
And she went to GlOOscap weeping,
And besought him for favor;
Would he put his whales to harness.
Give them wings upon their shoulders.
Lash them through the heavenly spaces,
Snatch the DOg-star, and, returning,
Give it to her for a trinket?
Then good Glooscap saw his folly,
And he stripped her Of her jewels
Every glittering gaud tore from her.
And with many an angry gesture
Strewed them down the purple twilight
All around the Bay of Minas.
Showers of precious gems came twinklinG
Till it seemed the stars we're falling.
Then cried Glooscap to the ocean:
''Now arise and do my bidding
Go and come each night and morning,
Go at morn and come at midday;
Go at noon and come at sunset;
Flow and ebb through many fathOms;
Go and come above the jewels
That my naughty queen dishOnored
Go till she shall see them shining
Where the sunken rocks lie naked.
But, when she shall stOOp to pick them
Run and hide them Run and hide the
Thus, revealing and Concealing.
Thou shalt 90 and come forever ln
Thus he spoke: the truth I tell you
Glooscap long ago departed
Furled his wigWam and departed
Put his spotted whales 10 harness,
Lashed them down the purple twilight
To the lands beyond the sunset.
Then the stone canoe he padded
In the bay became an island
And his hshing-rOd a Causeway
Leading TO it, DER the water
MuuagOO tis called in Micmac;
And his beaver-dam, Cape pleegun,
And the stone is Mount ChigueCtO
That he threw at old MaluusiB;
And the fog his wigwam's shadow;
And his bull dogs, turned to granite,
BlOmidon, their old name bearing,
Couch and howl above the Basin
| So the tides, each night and morning,
/ Go and come, as GlOOsCap babe them
Go and come ten mighty fathOms,
! Go and come above the jewels,
/ And shall go and come forever.
W. A. CRoFFU