Supplementary Note 97. Leap, Timber, Leap.

97. Leap, Timber, Leap.

An old man over eighty who was present at the recital of this story remembered hearing it when he was a little boy. Hauling lumber was in old days accompanied by song. The story turns upon a theme common in American Indian hero cycles, that of a trickster's claim to magical powers which he does not possess.

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