io6 Woodcraft Manual for Girls Spring. The voice still dwells in we feel that it 1ms lc«t nothing of its earUest power wh. i ve hear M crv: "Awake, the Spring is coming!" The Twiu iiitrc* Two-Bright-Eyes went wandering out To chase the Whippoorwill; Two-Bright-Eyes got lost and left Our teepee — oh, so still! Two-Bright-Eyes was lifted up To sparkle in the skies And look like stars— but we know weU That that's our lost Bright-Eyes. She is looking for the camp ; She would come back if she could; She is peeping thro' the tree-tops For the teepee in the wood. The Gitch-e 0-kok-o-hoo* After the Great Spirit had made the world and the creatures in it he made the CMtch-e 0-kok-o-hoo. This was like an Owl. bu t biggrfhan anything else alive, and his voice was like a rlter plunging over a rocky ledge. He was so big that he thought he did it all himself, and was puffed up. j « • The Blue Jay is Ihe mischief-maker of the woods. He is ve^^ smart and impudent; so one day when the G'tch-e akol^o-hoo was making thunder in his throat, the Blue Jay said. Pooh, Such-e 0-kok-o-hoo, you don't caU that a big nmse! You should hear Niagara ; then you would never twitter again. Now Niagara wa^ the last thing the Mamtou had made; it never ceases to utter the last word of the Great Spirit in creating if "Forever! Forever! Forever!" But Gitch-e 0-kok-o-hoo was nettled at hearing his song called a "twitter." and he said: "Niagara Niagara! I m sick S hearine about Niagara. I will go and silence Niagara for always"' So he ttew to Niagara and the Blue Jay smckered and followed to see the fun.
- This and the preceding four stories and poems we from "Woo<hnyth
«nd?i EmertmSp>on Seton. Acknowiedgiiieixt to Century Co.
