Reading Notes: The Red-Eyed Duck

In this story, the old man tricks the ducks into closing their eyes so he can kill them and eat them later. However, the twist in the plot is when the coyote comes around and eats all of his ducks and stuffs some of them with ashes. I think when retelling this story, I could change the old man to a young man and have him be a DJ rather than be a singer. This would had a more modern twist to the story.

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Bibliography: The Red-Eyed Duck from Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell (1915).