Reading Notes: Bluejay and His Companions

In this story, the Grouse is picked on and tormented a little by the Bluejay. The Bluejay's companions warn him not to do so, but he continually picks on the grouse and the Grouse does not say a word back. The Grouse is scheming and decides to crave a wooden seal for the Bluejay and his companions to skewer with a spear. The wooden seal was told to drag them as far away as possible. I think that in retelling this story I could change it to the perspective of the Grouse and have the Bluejay and his companions make it back to where they started and tell the Grouse what he caused them to go through.

Grouse Source

Bibliography: Bluejay and His Companions from Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929).