IN HIS lodge on the shores of Lake Huron lived little brown duck, Shingebiss. When the fierce North Wind swept down from the glittering Land of Snow, four great logs for firewood had little brown duck, Shingebiss.
Brave and cheery was Shingebiss. No matter how the North Wind raged, he waddled out across the ice and found what food he needed. Pulling up the frozen rushes that grew in his little pond, he dived down through the holes they left and got his fish for supper. Then away to his lodge he went, dragging a string of fish behind him. By his blazing fire he cooked his fish for supper and made himself warm and cozy.
At last the North Wind
shrieked: “Woo-oo-oo!
Who dares brave
Big Chief North
Wind? All other creatures
fear him. Only brown duck,
Shingebiss, treats Big Chief North
Wind as if he were a squaw-breeze!”
So the North Wind sent cold, icy blasts,
and he made high drifts of snow, till not a
bird or beast dared venture forth save Shingebiss
Shingebiss still went out just as he had
before and paid no heed to the weather.He got his fish every day, cooked his supper
every night, and warmed himself by his fire.
“Ah!” raged Big Chief North Wind,
‘’little brown duck, Shingebiss, cares not
for snow or ice! North Wind will freeze
his holes, so he can get no food;
then Big Chief will conquer him!”
So the North Wind froze the
holes where the little brown
duck fished and heaped
his pond with snow.
THE BOOK HOUSE for CHILDREN
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