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but the Indians who would not-die, pale face say I give you powder, also give you match to light it, give you this for all your fair-lands, hoping soon you blow your head off - Indian say this is so sudden, and he take the match and powder, making face that said youre welcome, but his HEART WAS [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] sad and heavy. As the beaver dammed the small streams, so the red man dammed the rivers, for the water god had brought them from the land where bad things ever, grow to make the Indian sorry . So they dammed the waters near them, dammed the streamlets and the rivers, hoping that the Manitou would, overthrow the white invader . But the red man died and vanished, as the leaves fall from the maples and are made to warm the [[strikethrough]] [[surface]] [[/strikethrough]] bosom of the mother who had nursed them - pale face - stronger than the Indian with the fire-guns of the bad one - stronger grew and many children, came to bless him in the new-land. Then the birch lodge went forever, and great houses in their place grew - many pale face chieftains lived there, then went on to join the Indian. When too late to learn his story pale face made much talk of Indian - then the Puffin and the Beaver, they who are the war chiefs mighty, in the councils of the clan house, put their hands upon whatever, they could find that smelled of Indian, and they kept them in their strong house, singing songs of gladness o'er them. Beaver lived - not by a dam-site - he existed, as the lone chief. Puffin CHIEF WHO knew the life-laws, hunted far and found a quenn [[queen]] - who, made his days one long sweet dream, and brought him gladness at his campfire. Then there came a little princess, from the mystery of the last moon, to the brightness of to-day time - came and made a new light in the, camp of Puffin clan.
Many moons sent down their pale light, on the land [[strikethrough]] [[wher]] [[/strikethrough]]