{"collection":"folklore-oral-tradition","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Tlingit_Myths_and_Texts_The_Protracted_Winter/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Tlingit_Myths_and_Texts_The_Protracted_Winter","id":"wikisource_Tlingit_Myths_and_Texts_The_Protracted_Winter","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tlingit_Myths_and_Texts/The_Protracted_Winter","summary":null,"tags":["Headers_applying_DefaultSort_key","Pages_with_translator","Subpages"],"text":"14. THE PROTRACTED WINTER\n\nOne time some boys pulled a piece of drifting seaweed out of the\nwater on one side of their canoe and put it in again on the other. It\nwas almost summer then, but, for having done this, winter came on\nagain and snow was piled high in front of the houses so that people\nbegan to be in want of food. One day, however, a blue jay perched\non the edge of a smoke hole, with elderberries in its mouth, and cried,\n\"KlhiA xe.\" This was the name of a neighboring town. So the\npeople took all the cedar bark they had prepared to make houses out\nof and went to KllnA xe where they found that it was already summer\nand the berries were ripe. Only about their own town was it still\nwinter. This happened just beyond the town of Wrangell.\n\nI tell you this story to show how particular people used to be in\nolden times about things, for it was only a piece of seaweed that\nbrought winter on.","title":"Tlingit Myths and Texts/The Protracted Winter","tradition":"folklore-oral-tradition","translated_text":null,"word_count":178}