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,