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The Log School-House on the Columbia

CHAPTER IX
19/25

The wolves have been kinder to me than you.
"My brother, My brother, I am turning-- am turning Into a wolf.
You made me so! "My sister, My sister, I am turning-- I am turning Into a wolf.
You made me so!" "O little brother, forgive me," said the sister; "forgive me!" "It is too late now.

See, I _am_ a wolf!" He howled, and ran away with the pack of wolves, and they never saw him again.
* * * * * "Jason Lee, be good to my people when I am gone, lest they become like the little brother.
"Victor Trevette, be good to my people when I am gone, lest they become like the little brother." The tall form of Marlowe Mann now appeared before the open entrance of the lodge.

The Yankee schoolmaster had been listening to the story.

The old chief bent his eye upon him, and said, "And, Boston tilicum, do you be good to Benjamin when I am gone, so that he shall not become like the little brother." "You may play, Gretchen, now--it is a solemn hour; the voices of the gods should speak." Gretchen took her violin.

Standing near the door of the tent, she raised it to her arm, and the strains of some old German music rose in the glimmering air, and drifted over the Columbia.
"I think that there are worlds around this," said the old chief.


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