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Indian Why Stories

Chapter V · Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of Indian Why Stories is here in full — 188 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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"All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.
He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.
Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.
"'Now,' he said to himself, 'I shall run faster and farther than before.
I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'
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Indian Why Stories

Chapter V · Chapter 5

Chapter 5 of Indian Why Stories is here in full — 188 sentences across 38 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/37 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
"All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.
Line 2
He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.
Line 3
Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.
Line 4
"'Now,' he said to himself, 'I shall run faster and farther than before.
Line 5
I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

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Waking adjective US /ˈweɪ.kɪŋ/

Risen from sleep; conscious.

From this reading “He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.”

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a

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

about

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

afraid

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

All

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

and

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

are

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

as

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

at

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

beautiful

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

bed

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

before

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

bravely

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

by

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

call

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

coward

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

cowards

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

crept

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

cunning

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

daytime

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

do

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

done

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

farther

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From this reading "'Now,' he said to himself, 'I shall run faster and farther than before.

faster

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From this reading "'Now,' he said to himself, 'I shall run faster and farther than before.

fingers

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

great

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

had

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

hastened

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

He

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

heard

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

himself

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

I

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From this reading "'Now,' he said to himself, 'I shall run faster and farther than before.

in

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

is

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

it

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

lasts

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

leggings

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

linings

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

lodge

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

made

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

Moon

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

mountains

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

night

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

night-bird

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

not

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

Now

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From this reading "'Now,' he said to himself, 'I shall run faster and farther than before.

of

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

old

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

on

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

out

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

outside

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

painted

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

queer

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

run

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From this reading "'Now,' he said to himself, 'I shall run faster and farther than before.

running

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

said

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From this reading "'Now,' he said to himself, 'I shall run faster and farther than before.

shall

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From this reading "'Now,' he said to himself, 'I shall run faster and farther than before.

signs

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

sleeper

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

so

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

stay

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

stole

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

stop

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

Sun

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

surely

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

talking

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

tanned

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

than

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From this reading "'Now,' he said to himself, 'I shall run faster and farther than before.

the

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

them

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

Then

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

they

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

thought

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

time

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

to

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

tremble

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

wake

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

wakingadjectiveUS /ˈweɪ.kɪŋ/

Risen from sleep; conscious.

From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

were

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From this reading "All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble.

when

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From this reading Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as cowards do when they are afraid.

while

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

with

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

without

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

work

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From this reading I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the daytime!'

would

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From this reading He heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great sleeper.

Chapter 5 of Indian Why Stories by Frank Bird Linderman holds 188 sentences, grouped into 38 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 5 of Indian Why Stories contain?

Chapter 5 holds 188 sentences of Indian Why Stories, unabridged, divided into 38 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 5 of Indian Why Stories by Frank Bird Linderman exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 188 sentences, grouped into 38 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

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Northwest--that
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