Canadian Fairy Tales — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Canadian Fairy Tales
John Stuart Mill · en
Wolf trotting along like a little horse, and Rabbit laughing
to himself, sitting in the saddle 116
Suddenly a large flock of birds, looking like great black clouds,
came flying from the blue hills 124
Throughout the long winter months Deer looked longingly
for Rainbow 128
He sat very quiet, waiting for the man of the long foot to
appear 136
The boy went into the forest with his bow and arrows.... He
had not gone far when he saw a fat young deer, which he killed 142
The bull rushed at the mountain with all his force 158
Then the young man lay down to sleep, and the Fox stood
guard beside him 170
CANADIAN FAIRY TALES
HOW GLOOSKAP MADE THE BIRDS
Once upon a time long before the white men came to Canada there lived
a wicked giant who caused great trouble and sorrow wherever he went.
Men called him Wolf-Wind. Where he was born no man knows, but his home
was in the Cave of the Winds, far in the north country in the
Night-Night Land, and there men knew he was hiding on calm days when
the sun was hot and the sea was still, and on quiet nights when not a
leaf or a flower or a blade of grass was stirring. But whenever he
appeared, the great trees cracked in fear and the little trees
trembled and the flowers bent their heads close to the earth, trying
to hide from his presence. Often he came upon them without warning and
with little sign of his coming. And then the corn fell flat never to
rise again, and tall trees crashed in the forest, and the flowers
dropped dead because of their terror; and often the great waters grew
white and moaned or screamed loudly or dashed themselves against the
rocks trying to escape from Wolf-Wind. And in the darkness of the
night when Wolf-Wind howled, there was great fear upon all the earth.