WOODMYTH & FABLE So 



low, Immovable oak." "What care I?'* 

 cried the unhappy Muskrat : " for the thick 

 ice of Chaska- water is my roof-guard." 



Faster danced the Demons, louder they 

 sang in their war-dance ; glinting, their ar- 

 rows flew, splitting, impaling, glancing. 



Fear was over the lake, was over the 

 woods. 



The Mink forgot to slay the Muskrat, 

 and, terror-tamed, groveled beside him. 

 The Fox left the Partridge unharmed, and 

 the Lynx and the Rabbit were brothers. 

 Tamed by the Fear were they who had 

 scoffed at the Peace of the Sun-god, and 

 tremblmgthey hid in the snow-drift, in the 

 tree-trunk, in the ice — trembling, but inly 

 defiant. 



Whoop I went the Ice-demons, dancing 

 louder and higher. A mile in the air went 

 their hurtling spears. 



