Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-17
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JUNIOR STORIES.
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wAUkEWA's EAGLE.

One day as an Indian boy, WaukeWa,
was hunting along the mountain side,
he found a young eagle lying at the
bottom of cliff. The bird had fallen
off the rock, high above. and being too
young to fly had fluttered down and
injured itself so severely, that 1t was
likely to die. Waukewa was about to
drive one of his sharp arrows through
it. when a gentler impulse came upon
him, so he unbent his bow, placed the
arrow in his culver, and stopped over
the painting bird. He lifted it gently
and placed it in his arms, and then
started for his fathers lodge
When he reached the lodge he
warmed some water over the fire and
bathed the injured wing. He then
gathered some moss and sticks to-
gether and made nest in which ne
put the eaglet.
His mother smiled as she saw him.
for she also had a tender heart anu
from her girlhood had loved all the
creatures Of the woods.
When Waukewa's father came home
from hunting, he was about to catch 1t
up and wiring its neck, but the boy
pleaded with him so eagerly that ne
said, Keep it then and nurse 1t until
1t is we'll but then you must let it go
for we will not raise up thief In the
would let it go.
1t was month before it was WE'LL
and in the meantime strong friend
ship had grown up between the boy
and the eaglet.
But at last the time came when the
eagle must be freed so Waukewa car
ried it far away, where none of the
young braves might see it and be
tempted to shoot it, and there he let
it go.
The young eagle rose to the sky In
circles, but when Waukewa began to
move away from the spot it, came fly
ing down again and followed him all
day throu;.,l the woods as he hunted.
At dusk as Waukewa shaped his
course for the Indian lodges, the eagle
would have followed, him but he sud
denly skipped into a hollow tree and
finally the eagle flew slowly and sadly
away.
Summer passed, then winter and
then came spring with its birds and
flowers and fishes in lakes and stream.
Now it was that old and young squaws
| and braves LAUGHED their canoes on
| the stream and floated out from the
shore with hook and spear and had de-
| lightful times with the salmon and red
| spotted trout. After the long and
| dreary winter it was such joy to get
out in the sunshine.
| Above the great falls of the Apaho-
quit the salmon sported in the cool
current darting under the rocks and
leaping whole length in the cool air.
But onlv the most daring braves
ventured there, for If light canoe
ever passed the danger point, nothing
could ever save it from going over the
falls.
One early April morning Waukewa
launched his canoe half a mile above
the rapids of the great falls. He was
the only Indian boy who ever dared
go above the falls. but he had been
there before and his canoe had never
passed the danger point yet This
morning he was alone and first at the
sport The water was full Of salmon
darting in and out about the canoe
Waukewa had many piled in the canoe
when he happened to look up and saw
that the head of the. rapids was reach
ed and the canoe was going fast in
among the rocks.
He plunged the paddle in the water
and the canoe began creeping UP
stream when there was a loud snar
and the paddle was broken just above
the blade. The boy gave cry OF
| desnair and triad to f3ht the. water