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136 Woodcraft Mamial for QM» shall brood over thine and the words that thou shalt speak shall be my words." Looking into the eager faces full of longing and questioning, his spirit moved within him and he spoke. "I went, I sought, I found the Great Spirit, who dwells in the earth as your spirits dwell in your bodies. It is from Him the spirit comes. We are His children. He cares for us more than a mother for the child at her breast, or the father for the son that is his pride. Ifis love is like the air we lM«athe; it is about us; it is within us. "The sun is the sign of His brightness, the sky of His great- ness, and mother-love and father -love and the love of man and woman are the signs of His love. We are but children; we can- not enter into the council of the Great Chief until we have been proved, but this is His will, that we love one another as He loves us; that we bury forever the hatchet of hate; that no man shall take what is not his own, and the strong shall help the weak." The chiefs did not wholly understand the words of Wo, but they took a hatchet and buried it by the fire, saying, "Thus bury we hate between man and his brother," and Uiey took an acorn and put it in the earth, saying, "Thus plant we the love of the strong for the weak." And it became the custom of the tribe that the great council in the spring should bury an axe and plant an acorn. Every morning the tribe gathered to ^eet the rising sun, and with right hands raised and kit up<m thar hearts prayed, " Great Spirit, hear us; giMt us to-day; inake our wills Thy mil, our ways Thy ways." And the tribe' grew stronger and wiser than all the other tribes <rf men. Books Roeommottdod Aboomd TBI Fiix,H.M. Burr, Associatua Press, Lts Legends or Vanooovek, E. Pauline Johoaon. McOelland, GoodchiU & Stewart. The GAtnra Gkay Wou, Dillon Wallace. Fleming Revelle, $1.25. Wild Anuaks I Have Known, Emat Thompann Setoa. Scribaers, $1.75- Wild Andial Ways, Ernest Hkm^mmi Settm. Doubkday, Psfs k Co., Inoiam Talis or Long Ago, Edwwd S. Curtb, $1^