Then on their fifth day in the wate

Then on their fifth day in the water, Mother Bear saw a dark line on the horizon. It was land. Mother and cubs swam harder, struggling to ew keep their tired bodies moving. Finally, Mother Bear stepped ashore. She turned around to welcome her cubs to this new land, but she saw have neither of them. "They are small" she thought to herself. "They cannot swim as fast as I can. I will wait for them here on the beach. So she waited and, in her exhaustion, fell asleep. She sleeps there still, covered by the great sand dune' we call"Sleeping Bear." Her cubs will never dled, swim ashore, for they were too tired to complete em. their journey. But the Great Spirit took pity on the cubs and their mother. He raised the drowned cubs up and turned them into two sandy islands. They are just offshore from where she sleeps. When she wakes up, she will see two shining islands and feel in them the spirits of her two beautiful cubs.