asure Hunt 205

93. Moving Pictures 205

94. The Natural Autograph Album 207

95. The Crooked Stick 208

96. The Animal Dance of Nana-bo-jou 209

97. The Caribou Dance 212

98. The Council Robe 216

Things to Remember

_The Winged Soul that Stores up Precious Memories._

99. How the Wren Became King of the Birds 221

100. The Snowstorm 222

101. The Fairy Lamps 223

102. The Sweetest Sad Song in the Woods 225

103. Springtime, or the Wedding of Maka Ina and El Sol 227

104. Running the Council 228

105. The Sandpainting of the Fire 229

106. The Woodcraft Kalendar 231

107. Climbing the Mountain 233

108. The Omaha Prayer 235

A List of Books by the Author 236

INTRODUCTION

_Mother Carey_

All-mother! Mater Cara! I have never seen you, but I hungered so to know
you that I understood it when you came, unseen, and silently whispered
to me that first time in the long ago.

I cannot tell the children what you look like, Mother Carey, for mortal
eye hath never rested on your face; and yet I can offer them a portrait,
O strong Angel of the Wild Things, neither young nor old--Oh! loving One
that neither trembles nor relents!

* * * * *

A mink he was, a young mink and foolish. One of a happy brood, who were
seeing the world with their mother--a first glimpse of it. She was
anxious and leading, happy and proud, warning, sniffing, inviting,
loving, yet angersome at trivial disobedience, doling out her wisdom in
nips and examples and shrill warnings that all heeded; except this one,
the clever fool of the family, the self-satisfied smart one. He would
not be warned, the thing smelt so good. He plunged ahead. Mother was a
fool; he was wiser than Mother. Here was a merry feasting for hi