ALONG FOUR-FOOTED TRAILS 



" Full Moon " was the eldest son of the 

 plainsman and his wife Bright-Eyes. He re- 

 ceived his name from the fact that he was born 

 on the first night in a full moon and also from 

 his habit of prowling about, at night generally 

 when it was clear and the moon was bright. 

 He frequented the creek and its wooded banks 

 and the prairie to learn of the animals that 

 lived there and to study their ways. It is the 

 natural life of every Indian boy to live and learn 

 the ways of nature's children. He received 

 crude moral lessons through legends of nature's 

 gifts which had been handed down from one 

 generation to another. 



The beavers had been hunted for the coats 

 they wore by the fur-traders and Indians. After 

 repeatedly having their homes and dams along 

 the larger streams broken into and many of 

 their families destroyed, they scattered and 

 sought new localities along rivers and creeks 

 and with renewed hopes built other dams and 

 lodges. But they were followed again and 

 again with the same disastrous experience. One 

 brave beaver and his mate fortunately made 

 good their escape when the last of their colony 

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