THE DREAM FOX 15 



picture-book, and lead the sleepers long journeys 

 through strange countries all in a minute. 



" Two days ago I, Kabibonokka, was travelling 

 northward with Wabasso, the White Rabbit, and 

 between us we led Winter, who walked with lin- 

 gering tread. Suddenly I heard a signal to re- 

 turn, and I came, calling among the trees to the 

 Winds of Night to learn who had work for us ; 

 but there was no work, and so we wrought mis- 

 chief, and troubled Heart of Nature, who dropped 

 the snow to keep me from his garden. Who, then, 

 could have called us but Wabeno?" 



" And I," cried Mudjekeewis, " I was lingering 

 in the southwest country, where the cactus walls 

 the sand-heaps, and the century plant already 

 shows the buds of its April flowers. I heard a 

 signal and I came, only to find it Winter. Who 

 called me but Wabeno?" 



" Winds of Night, idle Winds of Night, I have 

 work for you, though you came at another's bid- 

 ding," called Heart of Nature. " Go up and tear 

 the veils from the stars and polish them bright, 

 and help the young moon to find her pathway 

 down the western sky; pluck the dead branches 

 from the^ tree tops, scatter the last clinging seeds ; 

 then cease, for I have much to plan and set in 

 order before morning." 



