That Night There Was No More Sleep For The Band Or The Lovers, And As
The Young And The Old Danced About The Carcass Of The Dead Monster, The
Gallant Warrior Was Presented With Another Plume, And Ere Another Moon
Had Set He Had A Living Treasure Added To His Heart.
Their children for
many years played upon the skin of the white-bear - from which the lake
derives its
Name - and the maiden and the brave remembered long the
fearful scene and rescue that made them one, for Kis-se-me-pa and Ka-go-
ka could never forget their fearful encounter with the huge monster that
came so near sending them to the happy hunting-ground.
It is a perplexing business. First, she fell down out of the tree - she
and the blanket; and the bear caught her and fondled her - her and the
blanket; then she fell up into the tree again - leaving the blanket;
meantime the lover goes war-whooping home and comes back 'heeled,'
climbs the tree, jumps down on the bear, the girl jumps down after him -
apparently, for she was up the tree - resumes her place in the bear's
arms along with the blanket, the lover rams his knife into the bear, and
saves - whom, the blanket? No - nothing of the sort. You get yourself all
worked up and excited about that blanket, and then all of a sudden, just
when a happy climax seems imminent you are let down flat - nothing saved
but the girl.
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