| Show HOW THE TURTLE GOT HIS SHELL handsomest bo boIn boy Swift Wings was the the son also In the tho tribe and as ho he was Wa of ot the chief he wore soft BOft ringed embroidered d d shirts J d I rO of or doeskin O and moccasins em ern with colored beads bead On his hla h hwan hla head 1 thet thero 0 bright with was wan always a a. ga gay ay bonnet father r his feathers t Just lust like tho the one had whose whoso name namo a was The Tho old oid chief VCr very l dearly Drown Brown Bear loved 10 his son Th The boys boy's mother had hul died tIled when he was Wh I with was I left e J W but a bab baby and anti the child hl his grandmother mother until ho he wn i 12 When I he returned to his fathers father's tent to be bea Ca e C thought oUght the old grandmother wi s the me to a witch rho eho ho had hul been heen very veo kind child Swift Wings was fond of fishing ahel and anu days laYs on Oil t the e hunting and would spend lako lake In his small canoe Now NO at this time which was man many lon long years cars ago there lived not tar fax off ott another chiefa chief chief- a bad man who man who was wu always trying todo to todo do eto something unkind to Brown Bear Dear This chief was called lIed Panther for nc hr would slip lIp about In the woods and do all nil kinds of oC mean tricks such Ruch ns ne stealing f. gamo from traps and running away with canoes S that dl did 1 not belong to him Brown Bear Benr ha had 1 caught Panther ono One day dayan and whipped him severelY 50 so ever over after that Panther watched for a chance to do some harm to Brown Drown Bear One day Panther saw little Swift Wings 8 playing In the water 5 so 80 ho lie caught the tho boy up In his hIM arms ran to his canoe and sot set out down the stream as aa fast tast as he could go When the tho fa father fa- fa athor a- a thor ther came camo to his tent that night ho he could not find tho the child and though he waited Waltel till dawn lawn tho the lad did not come So Brown Bear went to the tent tont of ot the theold theold old grandmother to see If she could tell him where his son was nn and 1 how v to get t him Time The old witch itch grandmother happened hap hap- penel to be very busy when Brown BrownBear Hear Bear camo for tor or sho ho was making m a n magic bowl It wan wall hollowed out of or orono ono one pl piece ce of wood and carved all over the outside In pretty rings of or light and dark spots When hen she had polished hed It and fluted It around tha edges sho she went ent to tho the stream and looking Into the water a moment told Brown Bron Bear that hy by her magic power she sho could see Reo where Swift Wings was hidden Panther has stolen him she eho staid said Id and has hns carried him to the top of Smoke Mountain I will give you OU this magic bowl which I have Just finished Sit down donn In It and 2 you OU will bo ho carried curled at once to tho the top of or the mountain where your boy no Is living If It you own the bowl an any nn three wishes you 1 0 make will ill como come true So Brown Bear took h his seat peat In the big bowl and wished he was w-as at th the top tori of Smoke mountain and whisk In Ina Ina ina a moment h he was 8 th there r The bowl floated tell gently down and came me to rest reston on the grass Jol lin of or R a bl big tent I 7 y Jc I q Q P p s J painted In all sorts of ot colors Inside the tho boy 00 sat Bat on a stool while stretched out on his blanket lay bay Panther He was fast tast asleep lying with his hits face downward and anel 1 limbs eprea spread 1 out The father called softly to the boy who tho came como running to greeta greela him Then Brown Bear caught up tho the big magic bowl In his arms holding It high over his head He stepped quietly quiet quiet- ly Into the tent and dropped It down on tho the sleeping chief Panther Panther- The bad chief tried to get et up but Brown BrownBear BrownBear Bear hold the bowl tI tight ht and only Panthers Panther's head he arms arm and legs stuck outside of or the rim of tho the bowl The Themore Themore Themore more the tho man fought the tho more Brown Bro BrownBear BrownBear Bear held the tho bowl howl down until It pressed far down so eo that Panther was squeezed tighter and tI tighter Into the bowl And Just his hla h head ad arms and legs stuck tuck out and wiggled Then Brown Bear Benr remembered about the tha bowl being magic magle an and 1 doing what whitt ono one wished So he stood up and waving way way- ing InS hits his hand quickly said I wish that Panther ma may turn Into a little crawling animal an and 1 this bowl stick BlIck on hl his back until I use my third wish and wish It off again And In Inthe Inthe the tIme twinkling of ot an nn eyo eye It was done clone one There Them on tho the floor of or the tent lent at the feet of Brown Bear r and Swift T Wings TIngs Ings was wag Instead of oC the big chief Panther a small ugly animal with lIn tiny arms legs and anel a head sticking out of a shell that covered Its Ita back And the shell WitH was Just like e the ml magic IQ bowl all figured figured fig fig- urtel In rings And this Is th the tho wa way that turtles came Into the world and the they are crawling around till this day waiting for Brown Bran BrownBear BrownBear B Bear ar to use uso his third wish get gel the bowl off oft their backs so thc they can n bemen bemen be bemen men again Copyright 1915 b by lh time the McClure Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate Now New York CIl City |
