Glooscap the great chief, and other stories - ElectricCanadian.com

HOW THE BADGER MADE THE MAG
ICAL FIRE
ONE cold day in winter, the Badger who
was also a Wolverine, or a Racoon, just as
he pleased set out upon a journey. That
night he spent in the lodge of the Chief of the
Wolves.
When the Badger was about to start
upon his journey again, the Wolf Chief said to
him,
"
Uncle, you have still three more days to
travel, in a land where there is neither wigwam
nor fire; and it will be poor camping without
a fire. Now, I have a great charm by which
I can give you three fires, but no more. Yet
these will do, one for each night, until you
reach your journey s end. Gather small sticks
and place them together, as boys do when they
make wigwams for sport. Then jump over
them again and again until a blaze springs up
through the sticks."
As the Badger travelled on through the snow,
he could not help thinking about his secret of
the fire, which no one but the wolves and him
self knew. He wondered whether it were really
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