Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Wongo and the Wise Old Crow
_There’s a quarrel and fight, And a desperate plot, And a villain as bad as can be. Oh, it is a tale worth talking about! Just read it yourself, and see!_
Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
_There’s a quarrel and fight, And a desperate plot, And a villain as bad as can be. Oh, it is a tale worth talking about! Just read it yourself, and see!_
In the afternoon of the day following the visit of the coyotes to the cave of Cho-gay, a dapper little red fox and a gaunt, one-eyed, old timber-wolf trotted over a narrow trail...
1. CHAPTER 1_There’s a quarrel and fight, And a desperate plot, And a villain as bad as can be. Oh, it is a tale worth talking about! Just read it yourself, and see!_
5. CHAPTER 1_It’s a tale of a wild and wondrous land; An account of a man-cub bold, Whose life is sought by a desperate band-- So here is the tale as it’s told!_
2. CHAPTER 2Nap-time had come and gone, the long, warm afternoon hours had slipped away and the sun was just wrapping itself up in a bed of pink and gold clouds that hung on the horizon, wh...
7. CHAPTER 3About the time the first streaks of dawn lighted the east, Sandy, followed by his escort of coyotes, which by this time had grown to include about all of the coyote family, trot...
3. CHAPTER 3Left alone, with the Navaho dogs and the Indian man-house so near at hand, Wongo hesitated for a moment before deciding to go up to the hole in the mysterious house, but this mi...
13. CHAPTER 4Cho-gay climbed as quickly as possible to the broad back of the eagle and made himself comfortable between the great wings. He had to lie forward on his stomach, with his arms a...
14. CHAPTER 5Chu-ta-win and Cho-gay walked slowly toward a lake that lay like a great turquoise before them. Strange animals hurried, scurrying and crawling in every direction, and birds dar...
4. CHAPTER 4When the sun looked down from over the mountain the next morning it saw an unusual sight. A long, though peaceful, procession of bears, foxes, wolves, and even coyotes, went str...
12. CHAPTER 3Wongo and Kaw found Cho-gay, the Indian boy, in front of his cave, cutting raw-hide into long strips--to make traps, he told them. He was plainly very glad to see them. Cho-gay...
10. CHAPTER 1_But here is a tale as it came to me, And I’m told that it’s really true (By the little black bird who told it to me!) So I’m handing it on to you!_
11. CHAPTER 2Wongo had gone only a short distance, following Kaw towards Cho-gay’s cave, when he heard a voice coming from a little clearing ahead of him and recognized it to be the voice of...
8. CHAPTER 4The news that Kil-fang and his pack were returning to the Black Hills was a startling surprise for all who gathered about Sandy, but they showed no fear, for all knew how to kee...
9. CHAPTER 5The days that followed were busy ones for Kaw, Cho-gay, and Wongo, even though they had plenty of help. On the first night that the moon was full, a silent gathering of bears, c...