The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends

ld folk. Almost every day he had long talks with one or more of them. Thus it came to pass that he soon became exceeding wise

le besides hunting and trapping all his long life; even these did not begin to know the beasts and birds as little Luke knew them. Befor

sitting unseen on his form within a few feet of them. Mother Mit-chee the Ruffled Partridge made her nest in plain sight on the ground beside the old trail and they passed by a hundr

Black Mountain. For Old John, seeing the little boy's love of woodcraft and his wonderful keenness of e

nded business was finished, he would sit with the little boy on an old b

hen Old John started for home, he would go along with him up into the woods and there they would sit on a fallen log and talk of the old days when the R

illing any of his wild friends, even though he knew that their flesh and fur were very useful. He knew, too, that the Law of the Wild Kindred allowed everyon

ls could talk and build wigwams just as the Red Men did." He believed, too, that the forefathers of some tribes of the Red Men had been animals, and that the forefathers of some of the an

olk round about. For this reason, as time went on, many of them came to see the wonderful Man Cub

of them were furry folk, who lived in the woods and fields and along the brooks, and some were

ward before the return of Pe-boan the cruel Winter King. They loved the upper spaces of the great

t to them. So they seldom came down from their airy homes in the upper branches of the great trees. For this r