--- title: XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: (Iroquois) --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/40/) [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/) / XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy # XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 56 sentences and 588 words. 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(Iroquois)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") A boy went out to hunt and crawled into a great hole where porcupines lived.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He wanted to get some of the young ones.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The dirt fell into the hole behind him and shut him in with the porcupines.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy cried himself to sleep, for he knew his father could not find him.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") When he awoke he saw the mother porcupine as big as a squaw.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") She gave him some food, but he could not eat.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") The food was bitter.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") The porcupine squaw said, “I will call a council, for I do not know what to feed you.”[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") The council was held in the woods close by.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Wolves, bears, foxes, and deer came.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") The mother sent her young porcupines to call these animals to the council.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy was glad he had not hurt any one in the porcupine’s cave.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") The mother porcupine stood in the council and said: “I have found this creature in the house I have made for my little ones.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") He is hungry, but he cannot eat what my children eat.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Tell me what to give him so that he may live.”[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") A great gray fox rose then and answered: “I live on geese and the birds of the forest.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") He is the child of the red man.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") The red man has fire and clay.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") He cooks his food; I do not.”[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") The council decided that the fox should not take the boy.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") A wolf stood in the council: “I have many cubs in my den.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") They are always hungry.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") I am always hungry.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") It is better for the boy never to see the place where I sleep.”[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") And the council agreed that the wolf mother should not take the boy.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") The deer did not stand.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") His head was covered with tall antlers.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") He sat and looked with kind eyes at the man-child.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") He said: “I have hidden my family in the thick bushes.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") They are safe while I am in this council.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") We feed on wild grass and the tender leaves of the trees.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") We love one another, but there are many who hunt us.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") The child could never run as we run.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Our eyes see much.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") We see, we hear, and we run.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") The child has two feet; we have four.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") He could not follow us.”[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") The council said that the deer should not take the boy.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") The bear rose on his hind legs and said: “I feed on nuts.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") My little ones are warm and not hungry.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") I will take the boy.”[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") The council said that the bear was wise.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy should go with him, and all the other animals would help to gather the nuts for his feeding.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") The council fire was put out, and each one went home.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy followed the bear to a hole in a great tree.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") The mother bear and the cubs welcomed him, and the boy was happy.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") He learned to talk as the bears talk and to walk like them.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") Nothing hurt him, and he was never hungry.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") Some Indians saw the father bear one day and chased him.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") Then they found the mother and her cubs, and all were killed.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy hid in the hollow tree.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indians found him and took him away.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") He was very wild and did not love his people, for they had killed the bears.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") The Indian boy was kept in the wigwam.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") He learned the ways of his people again, but never did he shoot or trap a bear.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [XIV. the Little Wolf Brother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/39/) - next →: [XVI. 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