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side of the river. The crane then resumed its former position 

 in the rapids. 



But the skull now cried out "Come Grandfather aod car- 

 ry me o\er, for I have lost my children, and am sorely distres- 

 sed.* The aged hud tl.-w to hef assistance, but caaefully re- 



d his injunction, tint she must by no means touch the back 

 part of his head, which had been hurt, and was not yet healed. 

 She promised to obey, but she soon felt a curiosity to know, 



where the head of her carrier had been hurt, and how so aged 

 a bird could haw acquired such a bad wound. She thought it 

 strange, and before they were half way over the rapids, could 

 not resist the inclination she felt to touch the affected part In- 

 stantly the crane threw her into the rapids. The skull floated 

 down from rock to rock, striking violently against their hard 

 . until it was battered to fragments, and the sons were thus 

 happily and effectually relieved from their tormentor. But the 

 brains of the woman, when the skull was dashed against the 

 . fell into the water, in the form of small white roes, which 

 soon assumed the shape of a novel kind of fish, possessing a 

 whiteness of color peculiar to itself; and these rapids have ever 

 since been well -locked with this new and delicious species of 

 fish. 



The sons meantime took up their permanent abode at these 

 Falls, becoming the progenitors of the present tribe, and in gra- 

 titude to their deliverer adopted the Crane* as their Totem. 



* The Crane is the totem of the rei<rniii£ chiefs of the band of Sault Ste. Marie. 



