WOODMYTH & FABLE 



flowers with beady eyes. The small voice 

 kept crying: "Awake; the Spring is 

 coming!" 



Ninna-bo-jou said: "Little voice, 

 where are you? Come here." 



But the little voice, being everywhere, 

 was nowhere, and could not come at the 

 hero's call. 



So he said: "Little voice, you are 

 nowhere because you have no place to 

 live in; I will make you a house." 



So Ninna-bo-jou took a curl of Birch 

 bark and made a little wigwam, and be- 

 cause the voice came from the skies he 

 painted the wigwam with blue mud, and 

 to show that it came from the Sunland 

 he painted a red sun on it. On the floor 

 he spread a scrap of his own white blan- 

 ket, then for a fire he breathed into it a 

 spark of life, and said: " Here, little voice, 



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