Little Nose Will Get You Into Trouble!

  Many moons ago, so long only the oldest grandmothers remember,
  when we lived in the mountain home where you could touch the clouds.
  There was a small boy called Nose Will Get You Into Trouble,
  his uncles gave up on teaching him to be a warrior for that he would never be.

  Many times this small boy got into things ust to see why they were there,
  he got bitten by a vixen, trying to see her kitts, he got sprayed by skunk
  looking into a hollow log, he was chased by wolf when he took her cub,
  he nearly died when mother bear chased him from her fishing place,
  he wore the scars down his back until the day he died from her claws.

  But it was his love of storms that scared his family most,
  instead of seeking shelter, he would run into it hoping to see the lightning
  strike. The whole tribe would shake their heads in dispare, there he
  goes again that nose will one day get him in real trouble. And then
  one day in late spring there came a storm such as even the eldest of
  the elders had never seen.

  The thunder shook the very ground,and the lightning was striking the ground in so many places
  the whole tribe hid in their houses and trembled for fear of being struck.
  But not Little Nose Will Get You Into Trouble, out he ran to the edge of the meadow,
  and sure enough he was struck, right on the top of his head. His uncles found him after the storm had passed
  and covered their mouths in wonder, for Little Nose Will Get You Into Trouble was
  not dead, but there was a streak of lightning, white hair, from his forehead back.

  His name was changed to Mother Taught Him A Lesson,
  he became a healer, and lived to a great old age. He never again
  went out in a storm but he passed on the lightning streak in his hair,
  so unto this day you can tell his children, they are born with a lightning streak
  in their hair, and many,  could easily wear the name
  Nose Will Get You Into Trouble!

p.s. I often wondered if grandmother was telling me I was too
nosey for my own good,but when I asked she laughed and said,she had
asked her grandmother the same question!
Told by Little Bird,to E vi nv,and then to me Dekanogi Ulogilv!
From grandmother to grandchild from time beyond time!
blessings granny!