4, 



WOODMYTH & FABLE <^o^ ^ 



so the Mink and the Muskrat in hiding 

 were thrust into view. Ping! zip! and the 

 frost-arrows pierced them. 



Whoop-a-hy-d ! <whoop-a.-hy-a ! round 

 and round in swirling snow and splintered 

 trees and riven ice, with hurtling spears 

 and glancing shafts; up from the ice a 

 mile on high and away, A TRAMPLING, 

 A GLANCING, a. trampling, a glancing, 

 a twinkling; and fainter, a glancing, a 

 glinting, a stillness — a stillness most aw- 

 ful ; for this is the Peace of the Sun-god. 

 This is the Peace in the dark of the 

 darkest Moon. I have seen it; you may 

 see it, away on the Chaska- water. 



