| Show t toto o o o o ototo O otOtO O O O O O OtO O O O I o New ew Indian Animal Stories 0 2 The Brother of the Panther o 0 0 D b B a By JOHN M. M u II a o 0 0 o 0 0 o 0 o 0 O D O O 0 O O o o o otO 0 o O oo OtO o O O O o e o o o oto o o r I 3 1 I b I ic r Children Color Up This Picture Copyright by McClure N Newspaper r Syndi Syndi- cate cUe Long time ago when a panther cried in the woods for all the world like the cry of a woman in pain an old man would wake up from his light sleep and mutter So you are calling to your our brother Well you may go on calling for your brother is sound asleep And the old man would draw his blanket over his head to shut out the tho sound of the tho panthers panther's crying Next morning while everybody was eating the old man would say that he had heard the panther in the night calling for his brother and then one of the little boys would ask for the story of how the panther got got and and lost lost lost-a a brother Once as the old men told the story a hunter was in the woods in the tho middie middle middle mid mid- dle die of the afternoon and he met a panther coming toward him At once the hunter put an arrow against his bowstring and got ready to shoot but then he was surprised to hear the panther speak to him Where are you going asked the panther The hunter said that he was looking for tor a deer Well Veil so am I said the panther We are going to hold a dance danceS and seven of us panthers are out hunting bunting for the tho finest buck deer in the woods Come along with me and we will hunt together So the hunter went along with tho the panther until the panther had killed the finest buck the hunter had ever seen and slung it over his shoulder Now said tho panther we will go goto goto goto to the dance ground And the two went along the stream until they came camo cameto to the tho place where the stream began and there they found a n door opening Into the side of or the hill I We will go Inside said the pan pan- ther thor As they went through the door I In the side of the hill the hunter I looked ahead and saw the finest town j house heuse he had ever over gazed upon and tho the finest dancing place he had bad ever put his foot upon Everywhere the trees were green and the air was soft sott as If it were summer though tho the hunter had been tramping through the snow when he met the panther There was a great company of or dancers there thero but they were all panthers and when tho other six hunters who had been sent out to killdeer kill killdeer killdeer deer by the panthers had bad come back the dance began After he had watched the dance for some time the hunter bunter said that he would like to join in So the panther who had led him Into the underground place came up to the hunter and passed his tongue across the hunters hunter's cheeks and said You are now my brother and you may Join the tho dance It was the best dance the hunter had ever had load and after he had made a afew afew afew few rounds he wanted to go back to his people and bring some of or his friends to the place So So when none o of the panthers was looking he slipped away to the entrance And when he was once outside in the snow he hurried hur ned ried as fast as he ho could to the settlement settle settle- ment meat As he tame Name to his home bome he met inel meta inela a party of or hunters going out to look for him He had bad been away for a great many days though he thought it was only n a few hours He told the people about the house of the panthers and s started out to lead some of them to lh he place But the snow had covered up his tracks and he could not find the door In the side of ot the hill hilI And in seven days das the tho hunter who had been made brother to the panther died because he ho could not longer live with men The day after the hunter died the panther came to look for him and when he found out that the hunter was as dead the panther began to cry I Ever since the panther has gone about aboul I in the night seeking his brother |
