“The little birds who built their nests in the sticks of the hawk’s nest tried their best to carry him down to the ground, but could not lift him, and so he staid on. Finally one day he saw coming, a long way off, an old woman bent over, and with a stick in each hand. She came to the bottom of the tree where the young man was, and began to climb, and climbed until she reached the young man, and then she turned out to be Spider.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 52 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan