human
she said now, with a strange, touching sigh breathing in the words,
gpt
She shook a little as she laid her hand on a buckskin coat of her man hanging by the lodge door; then she steadied herself again, and gazed earnestly into her mother's eyes.
human
Have all your dreams come true, my mother?
gpt
There was the dream that came out of the dark five times, when your father went against the Crees, and was wounded, and crawled away into the hills, and all our warriors fled--they were but a handful, and the Crees like a young forest in number! I went with my dream, and found him after many days, and it was after that you were born, my youngest and my last. There was also --her eyes almost closed, and the needle and thread she held lay still in her lap--
human
said the girl, with a gesture toward the cloudless sky.
gpt
Never since I lived have they gone south so soon. Again she shuddered slightly, then she spoke slowly:
human
I also have dreamed, and I will follow my dream. I dreamed --she knelt down beside her mother and rested her hands in her mother's lap--
gpt
I dreamed that there was a wall of hills dark and heavy and far away, and that whenever my eyes looked at them they burned with tears; and yet I looked and looked, till my heart was like lead in my breast; and I turned from them to the rivers and the plains that I loved. But a voice kept calling to me, 'Come, come! Beyond the hills is a happy land. The trail is hard, and your feet will bleed, but beyond is the happy land.' And I would not go for the voice that spoke, and at last there came an old man in my dream and spoke to me kindly, and said, 'Come with me, and I will show thee the way over the hills to the Lodge where thou shalt find what thou hast lost!' And I said to him, 'I have lost nothing'; and I would not go. Twice I dreamed this dream, and twice the old man came, and three times I dreamed it; and then I spoke angrily to him, as but now I did to thee; and behold he changed before my eyes, and I saw that he was now become-- She stopped short, and buried her face in her hands for a moment, then recovered herself.
human
Breaking Rock it was I saw before me, and I cried out and fled. Then I waked with a cry, but my man was beside me, and his arm was round my neck; and this dream, is it not a foolish dream, my mother?