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My grandmother Turtle made scarecrows to frighten away the birds

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My grandmother Turtle made scarecrows to frighten away the birds.jpg Old Turtle made me a dolly of deer skin stuffed with antelope hairThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.Old Turtle made me a dolly of deer skin stuffed with antelope hairThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.Old Turtle made me a dolly of deer skin stuffed with antelope hairThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.Old Turtle made me a dolly of deer skin stuffed with antelope hairThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.Old Turtle made me a dolly of deer skin stuffed with antelope hairThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.Old Turtle made me a dolly of deer skin stuffed with antelope hairThumbnailsver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.
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My grandmother Turtle made scarecrows to frighten away the birds. In the middle of the field she drove two sticks for legs, and bound two other sticks to them for arms; on the top, she fastened a ball of cast-away skins for a head. She belted an old robe about the figure to make it look like a man. Such a scarecrow looked wicked! Indeed I was almost afraid of it myself. But the bad crows, seeing the scarecrow never moved from its place, soon lost their fear, and came back.

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Waheenee--An Indian Girl's Story
By Waheenee
as told to Gilbert Livingstone Wilson
Illustrator: Frederick N. Wilson
Published in 1921
Available from gutenberg.org
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