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On this headland a company of friends and neighbors 188
were camping; and on the highest point was built the
camp fire. It was the children’s daily task (or pleasure)
to collect sticks and bark to keep this fire going from
dusk until bedtime. Around it the hammocks were
swung, and here the company assembled each night.

But one night, when the moon was very bright and sent
its path of silver far across the water, all were on the
river, except two children and one who loved them. The
children nestled close to their friend, and listened to the
soft voices calling or singing across the water. The
summer breeze broke it into a thousand little ripples of
light.

“How the river shines to-night! it seems full of pearls,”

one child said, softly.

The other one asked, “Are there pearls in this river as 189
there are in the Mississippi?”

“Oh, quantities of them; but the river hides them safely,”

answered their friend.

“Can you tell us where it hides them? Please tell us,”

they pleaded; and their friend told softly the following
legend:—

Years ago, before there were any white men beside this
river, there lived in a village just around the bend an
Indian boy. He was not uncommonly handsome, brave,
or good, but very much the reverse; and he spent all of
his days and most of his nights idling in his canoe on
the river. He did not fish or set traps or do any of the
work that the other boys did, but allowed his father and
mother to furnish him with food and clothing. His
grandfather would shake his head and tell him that
some day he would displease the spirit who dwelt in the
river, and that harm would befall him. But he was wilful,
and laughed at the mention of the spirit. He did not
believe there was one; he had never seen it.

One night when he had been far up the river in his 190
canoe, he came floating down in the moonlight, just as
that boat is floating there. Do you see that tree that
stands out on that point by itself? Yes; just there was
once a sand-bar. The moon shone on it, and the yellow
sand was like gold, as the boy neared it; he idly gazed
at it, for he was half asleep; but his attention was
suddenly attracted by a wonderful sight. He lay down in
the canoe and let his eyes come just above its rim, and
this is what he saw as he slowly drifted past.

An immense mussel shell lay just on the edge of the 191

bar, half in and half out of the water. It was wide open,
and was so large that the half of it formed a beautiful
seat or throne. The upper valve curved over like a
canopy, and seemed to protect a beautiful girl who was
reclining in the hollow of the shell. Her face, a soft
bronze in color, stood out in relief against the mother-of-
pearl lining of her throne. Her hair waved round her in
shining curves. Her hands were clasped above her head.
Her dress was of some shining white material, soft and
lustrous as silk; she was gazing up into the moonlit sky,
and seemed lost in thought. But it was not her beauty
or her strange appearance that attracted the boy; his
eyes had caught the shine of a wonderful belt she wore
around her waist. It seemed to catch and hold the
moonbeams and the sparkle of the water. It was made
of many strings of what appeared to be the most
beautiful wampum the boy had ever seen. (Wampum?
Oh, you must ask your mamma to tell you to-morrow
what it is; this is not an instructive tale, this is a fairy
story.) But it was not wampum; the beads were pearls.
The boy had never seen or heard of pearls, so he
naturally decided that it was a belt of glorified wampum,
and his heart went out to it; he longed exceedingly to
possess it, for he was covetous.

He floated down past the bar, and left the beautiful 192
vision behind him; but all night long he dreamed of the
belt, and vowed to himself that he would possess it, if
the girl ever returned; so he set his wits to work and
devised a plan. He determined to capture her and
demand the belt for her ransom. He secured a stout
deerskin, and concealing it in his canoe, he entered and
paddled a long distance up the river. He spent the day
in making out of the skin a strong noose, and practised
throwing it until he was perfect in the art. Then, when
night came and the moon was rising, he drifted as
before down to the sand-bar. The beautiful girl in the
great shell was there, and around her waist shone the
pearls. Fortune favored him to-night, for she was
asleep. He ventured near her, his feet making no sound
on the sands. When close enough he sprang toward her,
like a young panther on his prey. She jumped to her
feet with a cry, and the noose fell over her head, slipped
down past her shoulders, and pinioned her arms to her
side. She tried to break away from it, but it held her
securely. Turning, she saw her captor; her eyes flashed.

“Cruel wretch!” she cried. “Why do you treat me thus? 193

Have I not allowed you the freedom of the waters, and
because I thought that you loved them, have I not
guarded you from many dangers? Do you know who I
am?”
The boy answered, “I do not know, nor do I care. You
must go with me to the village; you shall be adopted
into the tribe.”
In vain she implored him to set her at liberty; he would 194
not listen. But pretending finally to melt under her
prayers and tears, he said, “I will release you if you will
give me that belt of wampum you wear around your
waist.”

The girl looked at him sternly.

“Can I give away what is not mine? These pearls belong

to the river; and because I am the Spirit of the Waters,
I am allowed to wear them. I will loan them to you, but
there are conditions. You must promise that while you
wear them you will refrain from cruel or cowardly deeds,
and, because your heart is evil, you must spend to-day
(for day is breaking) in the deep woods, fasting and
alone, praying to the Great Spirit for a heart pure
enough to wear these pearls. If when the moon has
waned and grown bright again, the pearls are not
dimmed and you have refrained from evil, the belt may
be given to you. But I know that you will not keep it; I
shall have it soon again.”

195
 She started up in alarm.

So saying, after he had loosed her hands a little, she 197

unclasped her belt and held it out to him.
He snatched it rudely, and said boastfully, “What I get, I
keep.”

Then he hastened to loose the thong, for he saw that

daylight was coming, and he feared that some one
would find him there and compel him to return the belt.

The girl sprang into the shell; it closed, and sank with
her into the water, while the boy, overjoyed, made off
with his prize.

The pearls were very large, and seemed to shed a soft

light around him. He bound the belt around his waist; it
was too short, but he lengthened it out with strings.

He entered at once into the deep wood to fast and pray 198
to the Great Spirit, as he had been told to do. But his
mind was so fixed upon the belt that he forgot to ask
for a heart pure enough to wear it. When evening came,
he entered the village. It was the hour of rest after the
toils of the day, and men, women, and children were in
front of their tepees. Very haughtily he strode past his
neighbors. Exclamations of wonder and delight, and
questions as to where he had obtained the belt, assailed
him. He answered that he had “found” it, but would not
tell where.

His grandfather shook his head mysteriously; he did not

believe that he had found it. “The River Spirit is weaving
her enchantments for the boy; I fear for him greatly,” he
said.

This made the boy very angry with the old man, and he
treated him rudely.

Each day that he wore the belt he grew more insolent 199
and vain. He spent all his time in admiring himself and
the belt. And each day the pearls grew dimmer. He saw
that they were fading, and he tried to brighten them.
He bathed them in the river and polished them with
care, but they did not regain their lustre.

One night when the moon had waned and come again,
he was out in his canoe on the river. He had asked a
younger boy to go with him, for he feared that, if alone,
the spirit would meet him. The child asked him
repeatedly where he had found the belt; finally
becoming enraged at his questions, the boy raised his
paddle and struck him. He fell backward into the water.
The boy did not attempt to help him, but turned his
back upon him, and paddled swiftly away.

The Spirit of the River saw it all, and hastening to the 200
child, she bore him safe to the shore. The boy hastened
up the river until he saw with alarm that he was near
the sand-bar where he had secured the belt; and when
he felt a hand steadily drawing him to the bar, he was
frantic with fear. He resisted with all his might, but the
canoe kept steadily on. When it reached the bar, he was
thrown violently out on to the sand, and the boat drifted
away bottom upward. He sprang to his feet, and was
confronted by the spirit; but now she was no delicate
girl, but a woman, strong and terrible.

“Give me the pearls,” she said, “and the river shall hide
them henceforth from the greed of mortals.” The boy
sullenly returned the belt; and, at a word from the
spirit, there came up through the sand and from the
river thousands of mussels. Each shell was gaping wide,
and into each she dropped a pearl. When all were gone,
the shells closed with a snap, and disappeared as
quickly as they had come.
The spirit turned to the boy. “Since you know the secret 201
that the river would keep, your lips must be always
closed. Stay by these waters forever, and search in vain
for the pearls.”

So saying, she changed him into a sand-hill crane, and

he may still be seen, standing on the sand-bars, looking
intently into the water for the pearls.

“We have seen him,” cried the children. “He was over on
that sand-bar, on the other side of the river, this
afternoon.”

By and by the smallest child said, softly, “I am sorry for

that poor, naughty, sandhill crane.”

203
 XII.
THE MIST LADY.

205
There was once a little girl who was not like other girls
at all; for instead of running and jumping and dancing,
she could only walk a little way, and she had to have
two crutches to help her. All day long she sat in her
chair and kept quite busy reading, or playing “just
pretend;” for you know when you play “pretend,” you
can change yourself to a fairy, or a bird, or an
enchanted princess, or anything you have in mind; and
then, of course, the time passes swiftly. So the little
girl’s days passed pleasantly. But at night, after she was
in her bed, and the house was quiet, and every one
asleep, the pain would come, and that was so dreadful
that the tears would follow. Now the little girl’s hands
were lame, and it was difficult to wipe away the tears;
so that she had to leave them in her eyes, and
sometimes because of them she could not see the kind
old moon that shone down on her bed, or the bright
stars that danced and sparkled for her.

One night the little girl was very sorrowful, for she had 206
heard the doctor telling her mother that she would
never be any better, and that she might live many years
before the kind death-angel came for her.

207

“Open your eyes wide and look at me.”

209
And now the tears had entirely blotted out the
moonlight; everything was in a blur. She was trying to
brush them away, when the sweetest, softest voice said,
“Do not brush them away, dear; open your eyes wide
and look at me.”

She did as the voice commanded, and saw the loveliest,

strangest lady that one can imagine. She was so tall, so
fair, with such bright eyes, smiling lips, soft waving hair;
and she seemed made of some material so fine and
delicate, that the little girl felt that, if she would try to
smooth her face or clasp her hand, she would feel only
substance light as air.

Her dress was a soft, floating, waving material like the

most delicate chiffon; it waved and floated about her
with every motion. She bent down and kissed the little
girl’s forehead, and the kiss was like a soft breath of
damp air on her face. The sweet voice spoke.

“If you had wiped the tears away, you could not have 210
seen me, for I am one of the children of the Mist. Come
with me, little Princess of tears; you shall be one of us,
and I will show you where we dwell.”

So the little girl took the Mist Lady’s hand, and they
passed through an open window.

The little girl found herself floating softly along through

the moonlight beside her companion. Her garments
were like the lady’s, of the softest, finest, misty chiffon,
and seemed to bear her up as though she floated on a
fleecy cloud.

The lady said: “Even tears are not in vain, for these
garments you wear are woven of the tears you have
shed. You could not have gone with me without them.”
The little girl laughed and said, “How strange that I
should ever be thankful for the tears I have shed!”

And the lady answered, “Some day, when it is over, you 211
will be thankful for the pain also.”

But the little girl thought that would be impossible.

So they floated happily along. They stopped to breathe

on some drooping flowers that a careless child had
neglected. They crossed a great river, and presently
they came to a mighty cataract.

“Here is our home, and here are the children of the

Mist,” said the lady.

The little girl held her breath in astonishment, and so

would any other earth-child at what she saw. For,
whirling, floating, dancing over the cataract, on the
shore, diving headlong down the mighty fall with the
water, floating up again from the abyss, were myriads of
beautiful forms. There were large and small, smaller
than the little girl.

The Mist Lady’s eyes sparkled; she held out her hand; 212
“Come, little Princess,” she said, “let us join them.” But
the little girl drew back.

“Oh, I cannot; I am afraid. Do you go, and I will watch

you from this bank.”

“Well, then; but sit here where some of us can be with

you every moment, or your garments will wax old and
fall from you, and how then will you reach your home?”

So the little girl sat close to the falls, where the Mist
children encircled her, clasped her in their arms, kissed
her face, and made much of her. They sang for her and
told her wonderful stories of the upper air, of cloud-land
and its palaces.

The little girl loved the Mist children dearly, for they
were so dainty and graceful, so kind and loving. And
they in return loved and pitied the little “Princess of
tears,” for they knew her story well; they had listened in
the night to her sighs, had wept with her, had often
lulled her to sleep by tapping on the window pane. So
they were old friends of hers.

By and by the Mist Lady came to her more fair and 213
radiant than ever.

“Come, little Princess, let us go; for we must meet the

dawn-angel near your home.”

So the little girl waved a last farewell to the Mist

children, and contentedly placed her hand in the hand
of her guide; and they floated on, around mountain
peaks, over fair valleys, and over the bosom of a clear
lake, where the moonlight was sleeping.

Presently the eastern sky grew rosy; and flying toward 214
them from its radiance, came a great white angel
bearing in his arms golden shafts of light. The lady and
the little girl veiled their faces as he passed them by.
Then, hastening home, the little girl found herself in bed
just as the sun’s first beams kissed her face. The Mist
Lady had whispered to her that she would come again;
so she sank into a quiet, happy sleep, and her mother
found her smiling, when she came to help her to dress.

Now the little girl and the doctor were great friends; for
although the doctor was strong and well, and laughed a
great deal, he knew how to pity little ones who were
different from other children.

The little girl told him all her fancies and dreams, when
he had time to listen; and the next time that he came,
she told him about the Mist Lady and her journey.

The doctor was greatly interested, and said, “Do you

know, little girl, I intend to stay here all night,
sometime; perhaps I may see the Mist Lady too.” But
the little girl said, “Doctor, it will not be any use for you
to stay, you laugh too much; you can see the Mist Lady
only when your eyes are full of tears.”

And the doctor said, “I really must cure this bad habit of 215
laughing.”

The little girl said, “I do not want you changed the least
tiny bit.”

So they were better friends than ever.

Not many nights after, the doctor stood by his little

friend. She was asleep, with a happy smile on her face;
for the time for pain was all past, and she knew now
why it had been allowed. The doctor was not laughing;
he saw his little friend’s face through tears; and,
glancing from her face to the foot of the little white bed,
he saw the Mist Lady kneeling, with her face hidden in
her hands.

And the little “Princess of tears” has a new name now.

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