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Title: The punishment of the stingy : and other Indian stories
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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mbackward and forward before the village; thenthey went seaward, swimming very fast. Theykept on to the island where Blue jay and hisfellows were cooking their food. Blue jay saidto the men, What is this that is coming ?The men looked at the things that were coming,and saw the women often jumping out of thewater. Five times they swam around that rock,then they went out to sea. After a while birdscame flying after them towards the sea—birdswith red bills, just as if blood were on theirbeaks. They kept following one another, manyof them. Bluejay said: Do you see thesebirds, how they keep coming? Where do theycome from ? Then the Eaven said, How isit that you do not recognize these as your chil-dren? Five times the birds flew around therock, just as the women had gone around it,and then they flew away out to sea. When Bluejay and his people were eatingthe meat that they had killed, that hunter said: Quick, let us go home. I am afraid that wehave seen bad spirits. We never before saw 14
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The Punishment of the Stingy anything like this at this rock. Then theygathered some mussels, and put in the canoesthe meat that was left and carried it with them.Just at evening they came to the village, andBluejay called out, Ah, Stikua, come and getyour mussels. There was no noise of peoplerunning. Five times he called to her, but noone came. It was all still. They went up onthe beach, and then they saw that no one wasthere, and that the walls of the houses had dis-appeared. Then they began to cry, and Blue-jay cried too. Some one said to him, Bequiet, Bluejay; if you had not been bad, ourChief would not have done this to us. ~No\y they made only one house for all; alllived together. Only the Eaven, who had beenkind-hearted, had a house to himself. He oftenwent along the beach looking for food, and waslucky, for sometimes he found a sturgeon; oragain he went along the beach looking for foodand he found a porpoise. Bluejay often wentalong the beach trying to find food, but he wasalw

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