ROUND TRIP BY FUR AND FEATHER

ROUND TRIP BY FUR AND FEATHER

Some folk tales are just funny little stories to make people laugh. This one is told by William St. Pierre, born in Belle River in 1900:

Once there was a guy who went for a walk by the river and then... all of a sudden a big eagle came up. The eagle flew over him and grabbed the guy, and he took him away.. And he flew away and the guy didn’t know what to do, up in the air like that. What if he fell! So anyway, he decided to take out his knife and cut the eagle’s claws, you know. And then, he fell.

He fell and he fell... into a big tree, a big rotten tree. It was hollow, and he fell inside there. And ah... there was a bear, it was a bear’s den in that tree. And he fell on the bear, so he didn’t hurt himself too much. But anyways, he didn’t know how to get out of there, the opening was way up there. So he grabbed the bear around the neck and all of a sudden the bear started climbing, and he climbed and he climbed all the way to the top. So then, he didn’t know how to get down.

Round trip by fur and feather, Brett Jubinville. Little man walking outside.

Round trip by fur and feather, Brett Jubinville. Little man captured by an eagle.

He jumped down, and I don’t remember what was underneath, but he didn’t get hurt... Ah yes, it was a deer, he jumped on a deer. And he grabbed the deer just like that — he just had time — and he climbed up on it. Then, the deer took off, and he ran and he ran, and all of a sudden the guy looked around, and well he said:
“My gosh,” he said, “I came back home.”

So he let go of the deer, and he was back home.

M.B.: Who told you that story?
W. S.P.: I don’t know... he was a liar.