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211 "How the Indians get to like whiskey" ('An Ojibway Legend')

One day a squaw went to gather wood and she saw a white man [?] something against a tree and the drips flew out in all directions and she was frightened and hid. and went to her tribe and told them what she had seen. The next day the indians with their bows and arrows crept up to surround and capture the white man. and as they crept round they finally discovered that they in turn were surrounded and they found that the bright sticks the white men had were guns and that they were captured by the white men. who tried to make friends of the indians and they set food before them but the indians would not eat. as they told each other that the white men would kill the indian with poison