Or beside our Indian fountains
Raise my tiny hip holla.
PEZHIU AND WABOSE,
OR
THE LYNX AND HARE.
A CHIPPEWA FABLE.
A lynx almost famished, met a hare one day in the woods, in the winter season, when food was very scarce. The hare, however, stood up on a rock, and was safe from its enemy.
"Wabose," said the lynx, in a very kind manner, "come here, my little white one,[46] ] I wish to talk to you."
"Oh no," replied the hare, "I am afraid of you, and my mother told me never to go and talk to strangers."