Sun Bear 16

July 11-2010

STORY 2

I'd like to tell this story to the children:

When I was a little boy, about once or twice a month, Strange
Horse, Jay, John, Running Deer, Paul, William, Weasel, Vic, and some of the men from the boothills in Missouri gathered their dogs to run foxes, and each man had his own dogs to see who had the best dog in the front, and each man knew the sound of his dogs. They picked a spot in the woods and built a fire; there they turned the dogs loose to chase the fox. They shouted out who is the best dog and who is ahead of the others. One night the dogs were having a hard time finding the fox, when Old Mack, a Walker dog, made a long howl which means the fox trail is cold. Jay said, "Well, that trail is too cold, it will be a while for the dogs to find another fresh fox trail. The men got out the hot dogs and buns to cook on the fire. Weasel went over and got two hot dogs and buns and came over to me and said, "I will cook you a nice hot dog." I went over to a big red oak stump and sat down to wait for him. Weasel came over and sat down beside me, and we ate our hot dogs. Weasel began to take out his flute from his flute bag and began to play his flute slowly. As he went on, then he began to play a litter faster, then he said, "The fox sees the rabbit!" Then Weasel played faster and faster and faster, then he said, "The fox and the rabbit went through the bushes and around the rocks and through the grass and through the bushes again." Weasel played faster and faster and faster, then he began to slow down. Then he said, "The rabbit went in the hole; Weasel played slower and slower and slower and then stopped. Then he said, "Now, Owl, you don't want to be like the rabbit, eventually it will get caught by the fox." Then Weasel said, "Owl, when you go out in the outside world, don't play around with the foxes like the rabbit did, you will get caught!! Stay away from the foxes!!


The moral of this story is: There are people like the foxes who take advantage of other people, or there are people like the foxes who take money from people for their living.