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Reminscences of early Michigan History 1800's
The Indians are peculiar for telling stories, and delight in listening to others from the traders. They will lie, smoke and tell stories, which are very long, half the night. When we get camped down with them for the night, a chief, perhaps, or the head of a family, will say, " Well, come, tell a story, " as they call it, art-soo-kay. They usually begin and make it mostly as they go on. One I heard told, was as follows: He commenced to explain how the beaver came by his large, flat tail, and the muskrat by his round one. He said: " Originally, the beaver had the round tail and the muskrat
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