The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-15


lfwere the folk tales of the tribes. He
told her how Nanabahzo made the earth
and of tie great food which nearly en-
>gulfed him H told her of the origin OF
the animals. the BIRTH of the east wind
and of the west, and he told her of the
+ mighty magician Masswaweinin of The
-Mohtoulille island, sand the swondrous
feats he performed And Nepawhamt
salnfost forgot her coquetry in the charm
Of his presence until the gossips began
ito look TWise and say: stNepawha1nis' has
found her master at last
But it was not to be. No sooner did
begin to remember who. she
was than her old ways began to reas-
sert themselves, until when Sakatehoc
finally crossed his fingers and laid them
graVely beside his nose, she opened ner
fingers in his face and laughed, and
Sakatehoc went back to his village.
/ :. Then no others came to WOO, and Saka-
tehoc went a-wooing no more He threw
himself face down upon a great bear
skin in his lodge and so remained, and the
8 days and the weeks went by and the
Winter passed and the sap began, to run
in the trees and the birds to sing. put all
of this passed unheeded by Sakatehoc.
His relatives came to him and urged him
to bestir himself but he waved them
away and moved not. And his brothers
and sisters urged him, but still he would
not speak. Until at last, when the spring
was almost come, the village broke up
land the tribe moved on leaving Saka-
te4hoc, who was sick with love.
= Then he bestirred himself for a MAN
, mad formed in his head as he lay. over
the site of the deserted Village he
roamed, picking up all that had been
misunderstanding, ornaments and trim
2 llets-and Of these rags and tatters he
fashioned an image like man. He
patched together hiSo pieces and orna-
mented them with bits of beading and
feathers and wampum and he stuffed
the whole with bones of men and OF AMI
mails and with sticks and stones and he
found some snow with which he moulded
the whole together. Then he called up-
on his guardian Manitou to breathe the
breath of life into the figure. and so II
was wondrous sight No such being.
ever lived before as this creature of rags
and stones, and Sakatehoc named him
Moowis, which means the man of rags
and tatterS.
And then Sakatehoc took Moowis to the
neighboring village where Nepawhan1is
dWelt,s for it had not broken up as vet.
and he took Noowfs into her presence.
And something spoke to Nepawhamis anc
she loved. Moowis from the moment she
first beheld him. And the wooing went
on merrily. Nepawhamis was in haste.
for she never knew before what love was.
and at last the wedding took place and
all the village came to see Nepawhanais
married at last.
The next morning Moowis mae ready
to depart and Nepawhanis followed him
out of the village at a respectful distance
as was. the custom And as they entered
the woods the sun shone down hot
through the trees and began to melt the
snow with which Moowis was kept to-
gether. And little by little he began to
fail apart. Here a trinket dropped in
the train and there! few rags were
caught up by sharp thorns. And here
was the bone of a deer's hind leg and
there bit@of glass which was once an
eye. And little by little Moowis dropped
away and was scattered along the trail,
but NepaWhamis knew not what had be-
fallen her lord. And she called Moowis.
Moowis,'' many times, and still he an
swered not. And on and on Nepawhanis
wandered searching for her lost love,
and still she wanders. And now of nights
in the forest you may hear a sound
which you may think is the call of a loon
to it's mate. but it is the voice of NeDa-
whamis still wandering through the for
est and ever calling as her punishment,
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