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The Girl and the Chenoo Monster | Fun Folktale Read-along | Bedtime Stories For Children
Nov 8, 2024
Be sure to subscribe to our channel for more videos: @storiestogrowbyLLC Beware! Dive into the chilling #NativeAmerican folktale of The Girl and the Chenoo Monster. #readalong with us as we follow the story of a brave girl as she faces a terrifying ice-hearted giant in a battle of wits and courage. Will she melt the monster's heart or fall prey to its icy grip? Perfect for a spooky night of storytelling—are you ready for the fright? This #readaloud story time has underlined words to help practice reading skills. Stories to Grow By is the #1 destination for bedtime stories for kids on the internet. Read the whole story here: https://storiestogrowby.org/story/girl-the-chenoo/ Subscribe to our channel: @storiestogrowbyLLC Follow us on Instagram: / storiestogrowby Join our Facebook page: / https://www.facebook.com/StoriesToGrowByLLC/ Check out all of our FREE bedtime stories for kids: https://storiestogrowby.org/bedtime-stories-kids-free/
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scripts one autumn in a place that is
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now called Canada and in those days was
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where the people of the past M tribe
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lived a girl and her three older
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brothers went to the forest to hunt for
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game over the winter
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they found a good place to make camp and
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build a
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wigwam since she was the youngest each
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morning after her three older brothers
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went hunting the girl took care of the
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camp gathered fresh firewood repaired
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holes in their Wigwam and prepared
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dinner before nightfall the brothers
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would return carrying the game they
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captured over dinner they would all
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share stories of the day's
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Adventures one night at dinner the
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brothers were silent
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why are you all so quiet said their
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sister today I saw strange Footprints to
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the north said her eldest brother like
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those of a man but much
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larger so did I said the brother who
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ventured South the third brother who
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hunted to the West nodded in agreement
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no one needed to say anything else
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because they were all thinking the same
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thing the chainu must be nearby the
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cruel brutal giant cannibal from the far
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icy
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North after a tense minute the eldest
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brother smiled and said oh it must have
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just been the tracks of a bear and they
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all laughed with relief and joked how
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they had been fooled by mere Bear
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Tracks but the girl did not
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laugh she too had seen tracks when she
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had gathered berries to the East and
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knew they were not the tracks of a bear
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they were from a chenu
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monster Before Sunrise the next morning
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the brothers left to hunt but the girl
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did not tend to her usual tasks she
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cleared the Wigwam and piled each bare
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skin that she and her brother slept upon
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in a single Pile in the
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center beside the bare skin pile she
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laid baskets filled with berries and
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fruit she gathered fresh firewood then
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sat by the fire and waited
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while the sun was still low in the sky a
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very large Shadow was cast over her fire
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out of the woods stepped the terrible
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chenu
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monster huge and horrible looking he
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looked fiercely at her the sister smiled
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pleasantly at the Beast and said
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grandfather my heart is glad that at
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last you have come to see us where have
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you been for so long I prepared prep a
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fire for your lunch or perhaps you would
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like to lay down inside first and rest
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your bed is made and there are baskets
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of Fruit by it you look tired from your
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travels the chenu monster was amazed
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beyond measure at such a greeting where
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he expected yells and prayers in quiet
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wonder he let himself be led into the
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wig
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Wong the girl said she had brought a
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suit she had stitched to fit him
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she told him to dress himself and be
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cleaned he did as he told he sat inside
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The Wigwam on the bare skin bed he did
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not lie down and look sad but kept quiet
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she arose and went out she kept
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Gathering wood for the
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fire the chenu monster Rose and followed
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her she was in great fear now she
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thought my death is near he will kill
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and devour me the chenu monster said if
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me the
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axe she gave the chenu her Axe and he
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began to cut down the trees she had
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never seen such chopping the great Pines
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fell right and left like summer saplings
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the bows were hued and split as if by a
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storm soon the pile of wood was twice as
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high as the top of their wig
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one the girl cried out grandfather
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there's enough firewood you must be
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tired from all your cutting please rest
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so the chenu monster laid down the axe
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walked into the Wigwam sat down on the
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pile of bare skin rugs still in Grim
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silence the girl continued to gather
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wood and remained silent outside the
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lodge while he
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slept before Darkness fell her three
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brothers returned from their day's hunt
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she walked quickly to them with a fierce
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look and said Brothers you will be
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pleased to know our grandfather is in
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the tent
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surprised they started to object but she
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firmly held her hand outstretched and
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said I am sure grandfather will be glad
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to hear all about your adventures later
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but first we must be silent and give him
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time to
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rest at that moment the huge hairy head
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of the chenu monster looked out of the
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wew before her brothers could cry out
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with alarm the girl said with a smile
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grandfather you have awakened I am glad
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because now your grandsons have come
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back and we can all have dinner turning
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to her brothers she said with as light a
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voice as she could muster and how was it
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with the hunt
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today not so good gulped one of the
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brothers staring fixedly at the chenu
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monster all I have is this
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hair and I have a goose mumbled her
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second brother also staring at the chenu
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monster I got a deer offered her third
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brother the chenu monster spoke
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granddaughter he said have your brothers
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brought no other
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game whatever your grandsons have hunted
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today said the girl I will cook for your
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dinner tonight in honor of your visit
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the chenu monster said nothing but
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disappeared into the woods when he
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returned he carried three full grown
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moose one under each arm and a third
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wrapped around his shoulders that night
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they enjoyed a Beast like no other since
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they had set up
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camp when it was time to sleep the chenu
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monster was so big that he filled the
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Wigwam so the girl and her three
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brothers had to lay down on the dirt
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outside but it was more than the roots
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and the Rocks underneath that Disturbed
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their sleep each one lay awake all night
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in Terror in the days that followed they
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began to realize the chenu monster was
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useful to have around as he could hunt
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better than 20 grown men after a few
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days he built his own Wigwam nearby and
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the brothers and the sister moved back
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into their own he ate most of what he
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captured but there was plenty of bare
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meat and deer left over for the rest of
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them and the pile of skins they had been
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saving for trading grew and grew so high
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that before long they began to worry it
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would take many trips to transport it
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all in their
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canoe they stopped worrying that he
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would eat them though the chances of
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Dying by accident were quite High since
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he swung trees around like kindling
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didn't watch where anything would Smash
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and the three brothers and their sister
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were far too polite and respectful to
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correct him about
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anything eventually the winter days
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warmed into
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spring one day the girl said grandfather
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soon it will be time for us to return to
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our
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village I would like to come with you
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said the chenu monster but your people
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would scream if they saw me I need you
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your help of course grandfather anything
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at all said the girl build me a sweat
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lodge and bring hot coals to
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it the girl was surprised he would ask
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for this since she knew the chenu
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monster was from the icy North and
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always sat far back from the
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campfire still they built the sweat
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lodge and when it was finished and had
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brought in plenty of hot goals the chenu
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monster went inside the sweat lodge
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pulsed with an orange Hue from the the
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heat of the burning coals but the chenu
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called out bring more hot coals this
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they did several times the girl heard
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the chenu monster moan and cough and
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then she heard no more
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sounds grandfather are you all right she
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said yes said the chenu in a voice they
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barely recognized bring more coals so
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they brought more hot coals to the sweat
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lodge and stood in great distance away
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as it was searing with heat
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after many long minutes the door creaked
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open out stepped what must have been the
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chenu monster yet seemed much more like
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a normal very old human man hunched over
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and wrinkled with a white beard that
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reached to his knees his wounds had
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healed his teeth no longer grinned
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wildly all the time the expression on
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his face seemed gentle he leaned over
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and coughed and out came a piece of ice
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in the shape of a man
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the girl knew what this must be it was
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well known that the heart of the chenu
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monster was made of ice and was shaped
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like a man this icy heart is what made
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him so Fierce throw it in the fire
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granddaughter he said and she picked it
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up and threw it into the campfire but it
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was so fiercely cold that it put out all
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the Flames so she restarted the fire and
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her brothers chopped the icy heart into
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fragments with a hatchet until bit by
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bit they finally melted it
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the man who used to be the chenu monster
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then
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smiled let's go he
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said so they hauled their piles of bear
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and deer skins and baskets brimming with
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dried meat back to their village where
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they traded the skins for whatever they
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wanted and shared the dried meat with
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everyone they all lived happily together
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for many years and that is the story of
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how the kindness of one girl melted the
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heart of the Savage chenu monster s
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