THE GREAT GRIZZLY BEAR. 99 



bidding her to speak to the storm that 

 came up from the sea, and tell it to be 

 more gentle or it would blow the mountain 

 over. He bade her do this hastily, and not 

 put her head out, lest the wind should 

 catch her in the hair and blow her away. 

 He told her she should only thrust out her 

 long red arm and make a sign, and then 

 speak to the storm without. 



The child hastened to the top and did 

 as she was bid, and was about to return, 

 but having never yet seen the ocean, where 

 the wind was born and made his home, 

 when it was white with the storm, she 

 stopped, turned and put her head out to 

 look that way, when lo! the storm caught 

 in her long red hair, and blew her out and 

 away down and down the mountain side. 

 Here she could not fix her feet in the hard, 

 smooth ice and snow, and so slid on and 

 on down to the dark belt of firs below the 

 snow rim. 



Now, the grizzly bears possessed all the 

 wood and all the land down to the sea at 



