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WOODMYTH & FABLE 



HOW THE CHESTNUT BURRS 

 BECAME 



FTER Manitou had turned 

 the old Porcupine into a 

 Shad the young ones missed 

 their mother and crawled 

 up mto a high tree to look for her com- 

 ing. Manitou happened to pass that 

 way, and they all chattered their teeth 

 at him, thinking themselves safe. They 

 were not wicked, only ill-trained; some 

 of them, indeed, were at heart quite 

 good, but, oh, so ill-trained, and they 

 chattered and groaned as Manitou came 

 nearer. Remembermg then that he 

 had taken their mother from them, he 

 said : " You look very well up there, you 

 little Porkys, so you had better stay there 

 for always, and be part of the tree.'* 



