14. THE PROTRACTED WINTER
One time some boys pulled a piece of drifting seaweed out of the
water on one side of their canoe and put it in again on the other. It
was almost summer then, but, for having done this, winter came on
again and snow was piled high in front of the houses so that people
began to be in want of food. One day, however, a blue jay perched
on the edge of a smoke hole, with elderberries in its mouth, and cried,
"KlhiA xe." This was the name of a neighboring town. So the
people took all the cedar bark they had prepared to make houses out
of and went to KllnA xe where they found that it was already summer
and the berries were ripe. Only about their own town was it still
winter. This happened just beyond the town of Wrangell.
I tell you this story to show how particular people used to be in
olden times about things, for it was only a piece of seaweed that
brought winter on.
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