Show It 6 0 O O O O O O O O O O O otO O O O O O O O o o O 1 I New Indian Animal Stories Stories' i 2 How the tie Wild Boy Became Brother to the tie Bear BearBy c g By JOHN M. M EJ Di rs o o oto o o oto ototo oto o oto oto O o o Oto 0 L I Child Children Color Colo Up This Plot Picture I Copyright by McClure Newspaper Syndi SyndI- cate cats Long time ago in the days when the tho Indian hunters followed the trail of the bear and the deer far into the mountains the little boys would watch the hunters go away from the camp in inthe Inthe the tho early morning and wish that they too could go Sometimes one boy would run nun after atter tho the hunters a short distance and then an old man would call out Ho little one Do you think you aro are the brother of ot the bear and do you go to hunt with the Wild Do Coy Bog Then the boy would come back to the campTell campTell camp 1 Tell me about the Wild Boy Doy and the bear the little boy would say and while the old man shaped a tiny arrow forthe boys boy's tiny bow he would tell this story It was in the days when the people lived U close beside the river which runs south and when everybody was happy and had plenty to eat There was a ayoung ayoung ayoung young woman who lived live with her seven brothers who were all good hunters She kept the home for them and dressed the skins of the animals when her brothers brought them in And all il l day she was singing Dut But once the hunters did not come comeback comeback comeback back at night lIght and this young woman sat up and waited for them On the seventh night some one came to the house where the young I woman sat and knocked at the door hello said a voice outside and the young woman went to the tho door to see who It was Out In the moonlight stood the Wild Day Boy with his bow and his quiver of ot arrows over his shoulder Who are you asked the young oung woman I am the Wild Boy and I have come comet comeL t t- t make a bargain with you said the boy boyS who stood in the moonlight I will go and find your seven brothers and bring them back to you if It you will marry me I have lived In the trees with the bees and the birds so long that I am getting setting lonely And the young oung woman studied about what the Wild Boy said a long time be tore fore she agreed that if It he would bring back her seven brothers s1 she would be Us his wife Then the Boy Wild ran ran away into the woods and the young woman went to sleep for the first time in seven nights As the Wild Boy Doy went swiftly through the woods he sang the song which the young oung woman had always sung as she worked And the bear who slept at atthe the edge of ot a meadow beside beside be be- side the river heard the song and got up and went to see who vho it was sing sing- Ing i l And the bear beat met the Wild Boy Doy In Inthe Inthe inthe the meadow and asked him where he was going I am going to find the seven brothers broth broth- ers ens of ot the young woman who is to bemy bemy be bo bomy my wife wire said the Wild Boy And then the bear laughed You will wm never find them said the bear unless I go with you to show you the road across the notch in the mountains which leads into the Darkening Dark Darkening ening Land Then you must come como with m me right away said the Wild Boy What will wUl you ou do for me asked the tho bear bear if it I como come with you I will be your friend said the Wild Boy That will not do said the bear You must be my brother K KAnd And for a n. the Wild Boy Bov studied about what the bear bad had said sI-d' sI I and then he agreed that he ho would b be bethe bethe the bears bear's brother So the tho bear passed his tongue over both cheeks of ot the tho Wild Boy and the two went on to find the tho seven lost hunters In the tho Darkening Land they found the seven brothers of ot the young woman and brought them back to her house But But then when the young woman got ready to go with the Wild Boy Doy as his wife tim the Wild Boy cried out No I do not want a wife for tor I am brother to the bear and I must stay to live in the lie woods And ever since the Wild Boy has lived In the woods where only the bears know where to find him r I |