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122 Woodcraft Manual for Girls watched and watched as those seven beautiful birds sailed away on wings like silken webs, and whose feet trailed a blur of orange against the blue of the morning sky. He bowed his head then— for he knew that those trailing, graceful feet were his Kah-lo-ka's one defected— glorified." " Do they always travel in flocks of seven? " I asked. " Not always, but often so," she repUed. " So when you count seven white ones, it will be sure to be Kah-lo-ka and her children; that is why I say you have good luck, and a tyue sweetheart. It is only an old Indian story, but it means much." "I suppose, klootchman, it means that like begets like?" I half questioned. "That truth bears truth. That fidelity bears fideUty — is that it? " "Yes, did not the SagaUe Tyee say that truth could not ti-dte with untruth?" die said very reverently. How Men Found tiie Great Spirit From "Around the Hie," by H. M. Buir. Permissioii Astodatkm Press. In the olden time when woods covered all the earth txcept the deserts and the river bottoms, and men lived on the fruits and berries they foimd and the wild animals which they could shoot or snare, when they dressed in skins and lived in caves, there was httle time for thought. But as men grew stronger and more cunning and learned how to live together, they had more time to thkSs. and more mind to think with. Men had loamed many things. They had learned that cold weather followed hot, and spring, winter; and that the sun got up in the nraming and went to bed at night. They saw that the great water was kindly when the sun shone, but when the sun hid its face and the wind blew upon it, it grew black and angry and upset then* canoes. They had found that knocking fl&ts together or ribbing dry sticks would light the dry moss, and that the flames which would bring back summer in the midst of winter and day in the midst of night were hungry and must be fed, and when they escaped devoured the woods and only the water could stop them. These and many other things men learned, but no one knew why i all was or how it came to be. Men began to wonder, and that was the beginning of the path which led to the Great Spu-it. In the age9 when men began to wonder there was bom a boy