The mother only spoke, and the wild boy tore down
the wigwam of the Indian chief just with a blow, and then he called
aloud unto the Lightning in the sky above, "Come down to me and help me
in my need! Build a grand wigwam such as man ne'er saw! Build it, I
say, and for my mother here!"
The Lightning came, and with a single flash built such a home as man
had never seen.
And then he said, "Mother, I mean to go and travel everywhere, until I
find another man who is as strong as I. When he is found I will return
to thee."
So on he went afar until he saw a man who lifted up a vast canoe with
many people in it. This he did, raising it in the water; but the boy
bore it ashore, and lifted it on land.
And so the two agreed that they would go on together until they found a
third equal to them in strength, if such a man were living anywhere in
all the world.
So traveling by hill and lake, they went, until one day, far in a
lonely land, they saw a man rolling a mighty rock, large as the largest
wigwam, up a hill. But the Bear's son, lifting the stone with ease,
threw it afar over the mountain-top,--threw it afar beyond the rocky
range; they heard it thunder down the depths below.
Then the three strong men went to hunt the moose. He who had tossed the
ship remained in camp to do the cooking, while the others went with bow
and spear afar to find their game.
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