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THE GITCH-E O-KOK-O-HOO

After the Great Spirit had made the world and the creatures in it, he made the Gitch-e O-kok-o-hoo. This was like an Owl, but bigger than anything else alive, and his voice was like a river plunging over a rocky ledge. He was so big that he thought he did it all himself, and was puffed up.

The Blue Jay is the mischief-maker of the woods. He is very smart and impudent; so one day when the Gitch-e O-kok-o-hoo was making thunder in his throat, the Blue Jay said : “Pooh, Gitch-e 0-kok-o-hoo, you don’t call that a big noise! You should hear Niagara; then you would never twitter again.”

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