Why the Curlew's Bill is Long and Crooked When we reached War
Eagle's lodge we stopped near the door, for the old fellow was
singing - singing some old, sad song of younger days and keeping
time with his tom-tom. Somehow the music made me sad and not
until it had ceased, did we enter. "How! How!" he greeted us,
with of the sadness in his voice that I detected in his song.
"You have come here to-night to learn the Curlew's bill is so
long and crooked. I will tell you, as I promised, but first I
must In silence we waited until the pipe was laid aside, then
War Eagle began: "By this time you know that OLD-man not always
wise, even if he did make the world, and all that is on it. He
often got into trouble but something always happened to get him
out of it. What I shall tell you now will show you that it is
not well to try to do things just because others do them. They
may be right for others, and wrong for us, but OLD-man didn't
understand that, you see. "One day he saw some mice playing and
went near to watch th