92 STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



" Wherever Foxes have lived, or man lives to- 

 day, there may Wagoose be found." 



" But have you ever seen him yourself ? " 

 " Never ; only to those of the Brotherhood of 

 Beasts, of which Man is the King, will Wabeno 

 vouchsafe sight of him. Now for my life his- 

 tory." 



" I had lain a long time in darkness, in my rocky 

 bed, when one day I heard a tapping around and 

 above me. I wondered about it a good deal, slight 

 as it was, because I had heard nothing like it be- 

 fore. This sound went on at times for many 

 years, and every little while a shiver would run 

 through the rock to which I belonged. 



" One day this shiver became more violent, a 

 splitting noise followed, and then a crash. When 

 my bones stopped aching, I saw that it was no 

 longer dark ; blue sky was above my head. At 

 one side stood the cliff from which I had fallen, 

 at the other dashed the swift running river 

 between these two I lay. 



"As soon as I learned what had happened to 

 me, I began to look about." 



"But what had happened? Who hammered 

 you off the other rock ? " asked Anrie, forgetting 

 that she had promised not to speak. 



