--- title: XIV. the Little Wolf Brother — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A wigwam stood alone by a great forest. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / XIV. the Little Wolf Brother # XIV. the Little Wolf Brother XIV. the Little Wolf Brother of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 50 sentences and 834 words. 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A wigwam stood alone by a great forest.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") There were five people in it for a long time; these were the father, mother, one daughter, and two sons.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") Before the winter was over only the children were left, for the old warrior and his squaw had gone to the Happy Hunting Grounds.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The girl and the oldest boy promised faithfully to care for their little brother, who was weak and suffered often from sickness.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") For twelve moons the older boy hunted and fished and brought food to the wigwam; then he told his sister that he must go with some braves he had seen in the forest, and be a great warrior like his father.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") “But you promised to stay until the little one was grown tall.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") You promised our father and our mother.”[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") “It is a squaw’s work to care for the children; you can do it.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") I am brave; I must fight,” said the oldest brother.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") “You are not brave, and you have not a straight tongue.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") It is not well to do as you are doing.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") When you go on the warpath you will lose your arrows, and your scalp will hang to the belt of your enemy.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Come back,” said the sister.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy ran from his sister’s call into the grove of great trees.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") He jumped on his pony and rode away to the band of warriors he had seen.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The sister and the little brother lived together in the wigwam until the wild geese had come and gone three times from the lake in the forest.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") They saw no one but the wild deer and the other animals.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") They planted their corn and tried to be happy; but the girl grew very lonely, and one day when she saw another wigwam across the lake she felt like the young wolf they had tied to a tree near the wigwam.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") “Come, let us go and see who is across the lake,” she said to the little one.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") “I cannot walk so far; you have not made me new moccasins.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") I am hungry; give me more meat,” was his answer.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") “You shall have much meat,” said the girl, but she was very angry.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") She killed the pet wolf when the boy did not see, and made a great kettle of soup from its flesh and the water in the lake.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") She put her own moccasins and her new suit on the buffalo robe which was their bed, and while the little brother was playing at hunting she ran away to the wigwam they had seen.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") “You are welcome,” said the old squaw who came out to meet her.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") “Where are your people?”[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") “They are all dead,” said the girl.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") The squaw gave her a good supper and said, “You may live with me.”[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") The little brother cried when he could not find his sister, and went to look for his pet wolf.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") He called to it in the wolf language but got no answer.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") The little one ate his soup, and putting on his sister’s moccasins lay down on the buffalo robe and went to sleep.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") He hunted all day after he awoke in the morning, but could not find his sister.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") “I will ask the wolves,” he said, as he heard a pack growling in the forest.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") He called to them in the wolf language and asked if they had seen his sister or his little pet wolf.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") “We found a wolf’s head near your wigwam, and we smelled the tracks of some one that went around the lake,” said the leader wolf.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") “My brother has gone, my sister has gone, my little wolf has gone; I shall starve and freeze,” said the boy.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") “Come with us,” said the leader wolf; “come and be one of us.”[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy ran after the pack, and as he ran he began to chant:[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") I am changing into a wolf.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") The wolves are better than my brother; The wolves are better than my sister.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") I am changing into a wolf.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") He ran very slowly; the wolves began to howl as if some strange creature were near, and the boy saw his own brother in a tree over his head.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") The older brother begged the wolves to go away.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") The little one was now a wolf, and he called to the pack to follow him, for he had found the track of a deer.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") The brother knew his voice and said, “Let me die, for my brother that I deserted has become a wolf.”[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") He fell from the tree, but the wolves did not eat him, for his little wolf brother told them who the man was.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") “Let him live.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") He is not good enough for wolves to eat,” said the leader; but to the brother who had done wrong life was worse than being torn by wolves.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") The band of warriors deserted him in the forest, and he never went on the warpath again.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") Adapted from Schoolcraft.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/38/) - next →: [XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/40/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)