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Today I'm going to share a story called The Songbird and the Healing Waters.

Once when the snow lay very deep on the ground and the days were gray with frost, there was great

sorrow in an Indian village. A dreadful plague had come upon the place and had carried away many of the people.

Neither old nor young were proof against its ravages, and the weak and the strong fell helpless before its power.

The people tried every means to get rid of the plague, but they had no success. And they prayed to all

their God spirits to help them, but no help came. In the tribe was a young warrior who had lost his parents and all his brothers and

sisters because of the dreaded disease. Now his young wife fell sick, and he was in great sorrow, for he thought that she would soon follow

his parents into the land of the shadows. And so he went about in great fear, not knowing when the end would come.

One day he met an old woman in the forest.

Why do you look so sorrowful?

She asked him.

I am sad because my young wife is going to die, he answered.

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