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And next day the snake
came back, and the boy thought that he would not tell the
snake this time. So they started, and he seen a cloud but
never said anything to the snake, and he reached the bank
safe and the snake was struck by lightning.
So the boy made friends
with the lightning people, and they told him he would be a
ruler someday and be a great man.
Those other seven boys
got so they couldn't stay with their parents. There was a
hill just a little way from the house, and those boys went
to the hill and turned to stone all red. And they said,
"If you want to see us, you can come here. Only clean
people can come and see us".
And people went to see
them often, and there was one fellow that didn't believe,
and he dirtied the rocks. When this was done, they left from
there and went to a better place and turned into pine, seven
nice pine trees, and said "This is the place you want
to come and see us".
There were lots of
people that come and see then and lay under the shade trees,
and so the seven found that they couldn't be trees and went
above and turn to be stars, and they said, "You people
can always see us up above. We will watch the frosts. In the
spring when you cannot see us in the west, there won't be
any more frosts. And in the fall you can see us in the east.
So you know that it is getting cold and frosts appear. We
will always be in the skies and never change to
another."
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