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Osse'o
Son of the Evening Star. When “old and ugly, broken with age,
and weak with coughing,” he married Oweenee, youngest of the ten
daughters of a North hunter. She loved him in spite of his ugliness and
decrepitude, because “all was beautiful within him.” One day, as he was
walking with his nine sisters-in-law and their husbands, he leaped
into the hollow of an oak-tree, and came out “tall and straight and
strong and handsome;” but Oweenee at the same moment was changed into a
weak old woman, “wasted, wrinkled, old, and ugly;” but the love of
Osse'o was not weakened. The nine brothers and sisters-in-law were
all transformed into birds for mocking Osseo and Oweenee when they were
ugly, and Oweenee, recovering her beauty, had a son, whose delight as
he grew up was to shoot at his aunts and uncles, the birds that mocked
his father and mother. (Longfellow. Hiawatha, xii.).
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