"My brothers, I will tell you a story. The birds went out to attack
the nest of an eagle, but the eagle was too strong for them; and
when all had gone he went out from his nest with his children, the
young eagles, and he found the raven and two other birds hurt and
unable to fly, and instead of killing them, as they might have
done, the eagles took them up to their nest, and nursed them and
tended them until they were able to fly, and then sent them home to
their other birds. So was it with Tawaina and his two friends." And
the speaker indicated with his arm two Indians sitting at the outer
edge of the circle. "Tawaina fell at the fence where so many of us
fell, and in the morning the white men took him and gave him water,
and placed him in shelter, and bandaged his wound; and the little
White Bird and her sister brought him food and cool drinks every
day and looked pitifully at him. But Tawaina said to himself, The
white men are only curing Tawaina that when the time comes they may
see how an Indian can die. But when he was well they brought
horses, and put a bow and arrows into our hands and bade us go
free. It is only in the battle that the great white chief is
terrible. He has a great heart. The enemies he killed he did not
triumph over.
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