WOODMYTH & FABLE 





THE THUNDER-BIRD ON 

 CHASKA-WATER 



EAD was the wind on 

 Chaska-water. 



Gone were the living 

 breezes. 



Long had the winter been banished, 

 and the sheen of the blue on the hills of 

 the brown was lost in the screening of 

 leafage. 



Life there was in the pool, in the bush, 

 in the marsh and the wood: life, life in 

 a precious abundance, but life that was 

 heavy with heat-sleep. 



Heavy hung the reeds and the cat- 

 tails ; heavy and limp the leather-soft 

 leaves of the aspen. 



Heavy and hot and dry were the Wolf- 

 willows thick on the ridges. 



