. Red folk and wild folk;. le willcatch me ! begged the witch. Crawl into my stomach. The old witch didas he told her, and then, the rattlesnake became soill that he feared he should die. He told her to comeout again, but she would not. At last, in his terriblepain, he crawled out of his skin and left the witchinside. When she found she could not get out of theskin, she rolled about and hid in the rocks. Since that day, the rattlesnakes lose their skinsevery year. The eagle was hunting for the old witch, and hekept calling, Old witch, old witch ! Where areyou ? and the old witch mocked everyth
. Red folk and wild folk;. le willcatch me ! begged the witch. Crawl into my stomach. The old witch didas he told her, and then, the rattlesnake became soill that he feared he should die. He told her to comeout again, but she would not. At last, in his terriblepain, he crawled out of his skin and left the witchinside. When she found she could not get out of theskin, she rolled about and hid in the rocks. Since that day, the rattlesnakes lose their skinsevery year. The eagle was hunting for the old witch, and hekept calling, Old witch, old witch ! Where areyou ? and the old witch mocked everything he said,rolling farther and farther away all the time, so thathe could not find her. Since then litde Indian children say it is onlyignorant people who think they hear the echo and donot know it is only the angry witches they hear,mocking them ; because the witches can never frightenor carry off children any more. They cannot eventravel about in the sunshine, for they always have tostav in their rattlesnake-skin The Coyote Bringing Fire to the Red People. There was once a time when the Indians hadno fire, but had to hvc on herbs, berries, plants andsuch other things as could be eaten raw. They didnot eat fish or flesh, because they had no fire to cookwith. When the cold winter came, the people couldnot keep warm, and asked the animal people for some -f^^ of their fire ;-#^ -:* 5. but the ani-mals had noneto give. The red peo-ple knew wherefire was kept ;but no manhad ever daredgo to the place where the Great Spirit had hidden itin a casket and had set two old has^s on s^uard, sothat man could not steal it. Now it happened that man had been very kindto the coyote in his hour of need ; so the coyotepromised to bring the much-needed fire to man, andcalled together all the animals. He told them howhe planned to get fire and asked if they would helphim, and as all the animals were willing, he selectedone of each kind, from the cougar down to the poorlittle frog. I will s
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