Found these legends and traditions,
I should answer, I should tell you,
‘In the bird’s-nests of the forest,
In the lodges of the beaver.’”
And the cunning Pau-Puk-Keewis, fleeing from the wrath of Hiawatha, ran,—
“Till he came unto a streamlet
In the middle of the forest,
To a streamlet still and tranquil,
That had overflowed its margin,
To a dam made by the beavers,