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D you ever ask your mother for a story? In- dian children did.“Well,” said Mother Indian, “a hunter in thewoods one day heard singing in a cave. He came near and peeped in. It was a mother bear singing to her 35 THE MOTHER BEAR’S SONG cubs and telling them what to do when the hunterscame after them.‘“‘Sang Mother bear to the cubs: “* When you hear the hunter coming down the creek,then —Upstream, upstream, you must go, Upstream, upstream, you must go. But — ““When you hear the hunter coming up the creek,then —Downstream, downstream, you must go, Downstream, downstream, you must go.’ ” 36
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