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Title: Rainbow stories and Indian myths
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Caldwell, George W. (George Walter), 1866-
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal., Phillips & Van Orden Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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(24) BOOMAROAR AND THE RAINBOW. Said Johnnie Bob, Vd like to knowThe meaning of the bright rainbow.And do the rain-clouds dry their tearsFor happiness when it appears? ND the Fairy answered: Once upon a time—long, long before time—there wasa Giant called Boomaroar. He was King of the Storms.When he was angry he would go roaring across the skies,flashing lightning from his eyes, and blowing great rainclouds before him. One day he filled his buckets and went booming overthe land in a terrible thunder storm. He dashed thewater in great floods upon the flowers, and tossed themabout with the wind of his breath until the Fairies wholived in the flowers were nearly drowned. They called to the Queen of the Fairies to protectthem; so, she spread a great arch over the land to keepthe rain from falling through, and then she painted it red,and yellow and blue. When Boomaroar saw it he said, It is a Rainbow/and hurried away as fast as he could, because he knewthe sun would soon come out. (25)
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(88) BOOMAROAR, AND THE SEA SHELLS. I walk with Mother on the shoreAnd ask her questions by the score,But though I ask, she never tellsMe why there are so many shells. «/TTA HAT is a difficult question even for a Mother toJL answer, the Fairy replied, because it is aspecial and particular secret which only the Fairies know.I will tell you some of the story, but I cannot tell it allbecause it is such a very special secret. Once upon a time-—long time before time—Booma-roar, King of the Storms, lived far out in the oceanwhere he splashed around playing with the whales. He was a gruff and rude sort of a giant. He did notlike the Queen of the Fairies very well, because shemade the rainbow. One spring day, while she wassleeping in a meadow, he tried to cover her up withwater. (27) He slapped the ocean with his big hands, spattering thewater into the sky, so that it fell in showers for days anddays. Then he bounced up and down in the ocean tomake the waves roll over the land, but the Q

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