{"id":521,"date":"2023-01-16T16:03:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=521"},"modified":"2023-01-16T16:03:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:03:54","slug":"of-the-adventure-with-mooin-the-bear-it-being-the-third-and-last-time-that-master-rabbit-made-a-fool-of-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/algonquin\/of-the-adventure-with-mooin-the-bear-it-being-the-third-and-last-time-that-master-rabbit-made-a-fool-of-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Of The Adventure With Mooin, The Bear; It Being The Third And Last Time That Master Rabbit Made A Fool Of Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now, truly, one would think that after all that had befallen Master Mahtigwess<\/em>, the Rabbit, that he would have had enough of trying other people’s trades; but his nature was such that, having once set his mighty mind to a thing, little short of sudden death would cure him. And being one day with the Bear in his cave, he beheld with great wonder how Mooin<\/em>fed his folk. For, having put a great pot on the fire, he did but cut a little slice from his own foot and drop it into the boiling water, when it spread and grew into a mess of meat which served for all. Nay, there was a great piece given to Rabbit to take home to feed his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Now, truly,” he said, “this is a thing which I can indeed do. Is it not recorded in the family wampum that whatever a Bear can do well a Rabbit can do better?” So, in fine, he invited his friend to come and dine with him, Ketkewopk’<\/em>, the day after tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the Bear being there, Rabbit did but say, “Noogume’ kuesawal’ wohu<\/em>!” “Grandmother, set your pot to boiling!” And, whetting his knife on a stone, he tried to do as the Bear had done; but little did he get from his small, thin soles, though he cut himself madly and sadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What can he be trying to do?” growled the guest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ah!” sighed the grandmother, “something which he has seen some one else do.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ho! I say there! Give me the knife,” quoth Bruin. And, getting it, he took a slice from his sole, which did him no harm, and then, what with magic and fire, gave them a good dinner. But Master Rabbit was in sad case, and it was many a day ere he got well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Now, truly, one would think that after all that had befallen Master Mahtigwess, the Rabbit, that he would have had enough of trying other people’s trades; but his nature was such that, having once set his mighty mind to a thing, little short of sudden death would cure him. And being one day with the Bear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,169],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algonquin","category-algonquin-stories","tag-algonquin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}