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legends which he told them there was not 

 one to make them afraid. For the horrible 

 story of Red Riding Hood is not known 

 among the Indians, who know well how 

 untrue the tale is to wolf nature, and how 

 foolish it is to frighten children with false 

 stories of wolves and bears, misrepresent- 

 ing them as savage and bloodthirsty brutes, 

 when in truth they are but shy, peace-loving 

 animals, whose only motive toward man, 

 except when crazed by wounds or hunger, 

 is one of childish curiosity. All these fero- 

 cious animal stories have their origin in 

 other centuries and in distant lands, where 

 they may possibly have been true, but more 

 probably are just as false to animal nature; 

 •■ for they seem to reflect not the shy animal 

 \ that men glimpsed in the woods, but rather 



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<?■••• W/P tne boastings of some hunter, who always 

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magnifies his own praise by increasing the 

 sjjjlj ferocity of the game he has killed, or else 

 ^i(jj the pure imagination of some ancient nurse 



who tried to increase her scant authority by 



frightening her children with terrible tales. 



Here certainly the Indian attitude of kinship, 



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