Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-16

Moon. I love the changing seasons, the
! changing winds, anything tina,
changes"
| At that the gold-red horses leaped
away and Lindu was alone with her
BIRDS
At length the Northern Light came
from his home in the midnight land in
diamond coach drawn by thousand
white horses. He was so grand that
Lindu went to the door to meet him.
His servants carried a whole coach
load of gold and silver, pearls and
! jewels into her house. She loved this
bright sutton at once. !.
+! You do not travel the same path all
| the time like the others. You set out
| when you wish and rest when IT
pleases you. Each time you wear u
new robe, and each time you ride In a
new coach with new horses. You shall
be my bridegroom"
And Indus choice was made
The news was sent throughout the
world, and guests came from the four
sides of the sky and Of the earth to
1t was agreed that the wedding should
be when the birds flew south. Back to
his home in the midnight land went
the Northern Light, knowing that
Lindu loved him BEST
The torrent which fell half thou
sand feet over the mountain side sent
Lindu her bridal veil. The Frost King
sent her laces so fine that breath OF
summer air would have destroyed
them, and they were stored away In q
block of ice for safe keeping. The
birds brought her robes of butterfly
wings softer than silk and more beau
tiful than velvet. Her sandals were
from the wings Of the honey bee:
stronger than reindeer skin, and
(fleeter than chamois' foot.
Spring passed away. Summer came
and went. The birds flew south, and
Lindu waited for the Northern Lights
return. Snow sparkled on the earth.
but no hoof-beat of his thousand white
hol ses broke the stiffness Of the mid
fright air. Spring came, but never the
Northern Light.
Then T.indu began to weep and from
her tears sprang the little brooks in
the valleys of Earth. The birds flew
about her head and rested on her
shoulders. They tried to caress her III
La hundred ways, but Lindu did not
heed them. Then they flew away and
wandered in strange places. building
nests where no nests were ever seen
before. Many an egg was lost and
many nesting stolen because Lindu
was not near to help her birds.
At last Uko heard their sad songs
anu Saw Ills uduSIl SiACA. ~ nv .
heart was always merry and his hands
so full of work that he had not noticed
Indus trouble. He ordered the Four
Winds to lift her GENTLY and bring her
to him in his sky palc:e.
She dressed herself In her bridal
veil. her frosted laces, and robes of
butterfly wings, and the four strong
Winds lifted her from the ground. The
song birds of Earth gathered about
her and sang their sweetest songs
With her white bridal veil streaming
far out on the air and happy smile
on her lips. Lindu sailed across the
sky to Uko's palace. There she lives
now, happy as her father Uko. Her
white veil spreads from one end of the
heavens to the other, and whoever
lifts his eyes to the Milky Way be-
holds the maiden in her bridal robes.
From there she directs her birds, in
greeting to the Northern Light as his
thousand horses leap through the sky.
She has forgotten his unkindness and
her sorrow. The Northern Light still
loves her. but is so changeful that he
can never keep a promise. Uko has
given Lindu her station in the heavens
and her work. Forever beautiful and
forever young. never changing, she
forever smiles at the changeful North
ern Light.