"But is there nothing you dread, here--nothing that would hurt you if
you took too much of it? Come, tell me."
Manabozho was very urgent, and at last his father said:
"Yes, there is a black stone to be found a couple of hundred miles
from here, over that way," pointing as he spoke. "It is the only thing
earthly that I am afraid of, for if it should happen to hit me on any
part of my body it would hurt me very much."
The West made this important circumstance known to Manabozho in the
strictest confidence.
"Now you will not tell any one, Manabozho, that the black stone is bad
medicine for your father, will you?" he added. "You are a good son, and
I know you will keep it to yourself. Now tell me, my darling boy, is
there not something that you don't like?"