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STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



the fasting time to come 

 in the hope that he might 

 see in a dream how to 

 bring plenty again to his 

 people. 



" When the Willows 

 began to grow green a1 

 the tips, flowers whitened 

 the meadows, and he 

 saw his mother 

 steal to the wood 

 edge and weave to- 

 gether a rude wigwam, 

 he knew the fasting 

 time had come, and h< 

 hastened to keep it glad- 

 ly. The silence only 

 elated him at first. He 

 went about peeping here 

 and there, gathering arm 

 fuls of blossoms and hea 

 ing them on the ground 

 for a bed, where he spent 

 the first night looking 

 at the stars and watch- 

 ing for Wabeno and the 

 Dream Fox. For five days he wandered thus, 



