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# Myths and Legends of British North America/Coyote and the Salmon (Shuswap)

COYOTE AND THE SALMON
Shuswap
ONCE Coyote said, "I have never yet given a feast! Why should not I feast the people?"
Coyote at once caught great numbers of sock-eye and king salmon. He made much salmon oil, and buried much roe. He filled all the skins with grease. Then he sent messengers to invite all the people. Coyote said to himself, "I will sing a great song, and dance for all the people when they come. They shall think me a great man."
Now when the people came they began to dance. And as Coyote danced, one salmon which hung from the ridge pole kept striking his head and catching in his hair until he was angry. Yet again it caught in Coyote's long hair, and he pulled and he pulled to get free, but he only pulled his own hair. He became very angry. He pulled the whole fish down and threw it in the river.
Immediately all the salmon came to life. They jumped off the poles and ran to the river and leaped in. Coyote tried to catch some of them, but into the river ​they jumped, every one of them. As he was trying to catch the last one, he saw that all the oil had come to life. It was running to the river. He tried to stop the oil, but it was too late. And then all the salmon roe he had buried suddenly jumped into the river.
Then all the people went home.
Soon after there was a great snowstorm. Coyote was snowed in and without food for so long he nearly starved. The snow was nearly as high as the trees all around Coyote's house. Coyote thought, "This is a very hard winter. The deer will all die."
Now Coyote's stock of dried fish and his roots had become exhausted. He wondered what he should do. He said, "This is a very long winter."
Coyote went to the top of the ladder and looked around. The heat and smoke had kept a little opening. The snow nearly hid the trees around his house.
Now the very next day a snowbird came and perched above the smoke hole. He gave Coyote a ripe berry, saying, "Why are you living here? It is summertime."
Coyote laughed and said, "Oh, but it is the middle of winter. See the snow all around."
Then again a snowbird came and gave him a ripe berry, saying, "See! The berries are ripe, but you are still in your winter house."
​Coyote answered, "How can the berries be ripe and snow be still almost to the tree tops?"
Four times the snowbirds brought him berries, and then Coyote thought something must be wrong. He put on his snowshoes and blanket, and climbed over the snowdrifts. Behold! As he came down on the other side of the drifts, just a few feet from his house, it was bare ground! Then he went on and came in just a little while to a place where the trees were budding and a little farther they were in full leaf. He passed down the North Thompson Valley and saw service berries in blossom, and then came to bushes full of ripe fruit. Then Coyote came to a large berry patch, and heard two Indian women singing.
The summer time had come. That was the way in which the salmon took their revenge upon Coyote.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/Creation of Light (Carrier)

CREATION OF LIGHT
Carrier
IN THE days of the animal people, there was darkness everywhere except in the tepee of an old chief. He owned all the light, fire, and water; therefore men were very miserable and sighed always. Men pleaded with the old chief for light, but he would give them none. Therefore they tried to get it by craft.
Now all the animals put on their masks and their dancing aprons and went to the old chief's lodge for a dance. He did not invite them. They went. They were going to get light by craft.
Khain, khain, khain,
because he thought in that way he would gain light. Therefore the animals call him Khain, which means, "He cries for daylight."
Now the old chief steadily refused to give them light. Yet the animal people were each singing his own song, and each singing,
Light, light, light, light!
Let there not be————! Let there not be————!
Had he said "light" as the last word, light would have come. But at once the light disappeared below the edge of the sky.
Khain, khain, khain, khain!
Let there be—light!
And immediately the light came up into the sky. Ever since then men have had light. But the old chief did not mean to say that.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/How Death Came (Lillooet)

HOW DEATH CAME
Lillooet
RAVEN was once a chief of great power and very wise. At that time people did not die. One day a man came to Raven and said, "I am not happy as things go now. Let people die so that we may weep, and then we will be happy.
Raven said, "Very well. If people wish to die, it shall be so."
The man went away and soon after his child died. He was sorry. He wept; but instead of being happy when he wept, he was very miserable. He went to Raven and asked him to stop people from dying.
Raven said, "It is too late for that now. I made it as you asked it. I cannot change things now. Henceforth people shall continue to die."
That is the reason people die. Afterward Raven was changed into a mere bird, because he let death happen. Through him it came into the world.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/Creation of the Earth (Thompson River)

CREATION OF THE EARTH
Thompson River
LONG, long ago, everything was a blank. There was nothing at all, anywhere, except a number of people who lived together in a camp. They were Sun and his wife Earth. There were also Moon and Stars living there in that camp.
Now Earth scolded Sun all the time. She kept saying, "Oh, you're so hot! Go out of doors; you make the house too hot!" She kept telling Sun how cross he was. Then Sun got tired of it. He moved away, and as Stars and Moon were his relatives, they went with him. So Earth Woman was left all alone in the camp. Then Earth Woman wept because she was alone.
Old Man came around just then, and he asked what was the matter. He asked all about it and Earth Woman told him everything. Then he went to Sun's camp. He talked to Sun.
Then Old Man said, "This will never do. There'll be people after a while. Something has to be done for them." So Old Man sent Sun, Moon, and the Stars ​up into the sky. He made them just what they are now. He said to them, "Henceforth you shall not desert people nor hide yourselves; you shall remain where everybody can see you, either by day or by night."
Then Old One changed Earth Woman into the earth upon which we live. Her hair became flowers and grass. Her bones are the rocks. Earth is never alone now, because she can always see Sun.
When people came, Old Man taught them how to spear fish and shoot deer with bows and arrows, how to cook the meat and dress the skins. Old Man taught people all they know.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/Duration of Human Life (Haida)

DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE
Haida
AT one time Raven said to stones scattered about, "Get up and help me. I am tired;" so he said. The stones got up, but they were unable to stand erect. Then Raven said, "Remain stones forever!" so they did.
Now the grass on the landward side of the stones was thick, and the salmon-berry bushes were very thick indeed. Then Raven said to the salmon-berry bushes and the grass, "Get up! Get up and help me. I am tired!" Then the grass and the salmon-berry bushes both arose. They turned into human beings, and they helped Raven.
So we are salmon-berry bushes and grass. Therefore we die in a short time, because grass and salmon-berry bushes are weak. Therefore people die in just the same way the leaves fall.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/Eagle's Feast (Kwakiutl)

EAGLE'S FEAST
Kwakiutl
EAGLE gave a feast. He invited all of the myth people. Eagle told his servants to get the four cooking boxes and to put stones into the fire and to get the tongs. When this was done, Eagle put on his eagle mask and seated himself on the seashore.
As soon as Eagle was seated, he saw a porpoise coming up. Eagle flew down and grasped it and brought it to the beach. When he had been sitting there a long time, he saw another porpoise come up. Eagle grasped it at once and carried it up to the beach. Thus he did four times. Then as soon as he had caught four porpoises, he took off his eagle mask and hung it up. Then he cut up the porpoises. When they were cut up, water was poured into the cooking boxes. Then Eagle put the porpoises in, and put red hot stones into the boxes also. Soon they were cooked. Then they were taken out. Eagle had invited all his friends for a feast, so they ate all the porpoises. Then they went out.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/How Fire was Secured (Lillooet)

HOW FIRE WAS SECURED
Lillooet
BEAVER and Eagle lived with their sister in the Lillooet country. They had no fire at all, so they ate all their food raw. The sister cried and complained constantly because she had no fire at which to roast her dried salmon skins. At last the brothers said, "Don't cry any more. We will get fire for you. First we will need to train ourselves for a long time; but if you cry while we are training, we shall fail."
Beaver and Eagle went into the mountains and trained for four years. Then they knew where fire was, and they returned home and told their sister that they knew how to find it.
Now they started off. They traveled five days to the house of the people who owned the fire. Eagle drew over himself an eagle's body; and Beaver drew over himself a beaver's body.
Beaver at once went to work. He dammed the creek nearby and that night made a hole under that house. The next morning Beaver swam around in the pond of water made by the dam. An old man saw him and ​shot him. He took Beaver into the house and laid him beside the fire. He told the people to skin him. While they were skinning Beaver, they found a clamshell under his arm, which he had hidden there.
Just then the people saw a large eagle perched in a tree nearby. Quickly they wished for his feathers. At once they all ran out and began to shoot at him, but no one could hit him. And while they were shooting, Beaver was left alone.
Then Beaver rose quickly and put fire in his clam shell. He dug into the hole he had made beneath the house, and raced away to the water. He swam away with the fire.
As soon as Eagle saw that Beaver was safe, he flew away. Then they returned home. They gave fire to their sister.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/How Grizzly Bear and Coyote made Light and the Seasons (Shuswap)

HOW GRIZZLY BEAR AND COYOTE MADE LIGHT AND THE SEASONS
Shuswap
ONE day Grizzly Bear met Coyote and said to him, "I am great in magic, greater than all of the people. When I wish a thing to be so, it has to be so. Now, I do not like having it dark so short a time. I intended to make it dark all the time."
Coyote said, "Oh, no! That would inconvenience the people too much."
Grizzly Bear said, "I intend to have it my way."
Coyote said, "No, you can't!"
Darkness! darkness! darkness! Let it always be dark!
That was his song.
Light! light! light! light! Let it always be light!
Thus Coyote sang.
They danced and sang a long, long time. Sometimes it was dark, when Grizzly sang loudest, and ​times it was light when Coyote sang loudest. But neither won.
At last Grizzly Bear became tired. He said, "Let's have it dark half the time, and light half the time." Coyote agreed. He said, "Hereafter it shall be light from the time that the sun prepares to follow the trail through the Sky Land until he reaches the edge of the Darkening Land. The rest of the time shall be night. Thus every day shall Sun travel. When he leaves the Earth Plain, the darkness shall follow him."
After a while, Grizzly Bear said, "I do not like the length of the year. Winter is far too short. Let winter be as many moons long as there are feathers in the tail of Blue Grouse." So they counted and found twenty-two feathers in the tail of Blue Grouse. Grizzly Bear wanted winter to be twenty-two moons long!
Coyote said at once, "Oh, no! The people would die. Let winter be half that number." Grizzly Bear objected. Then Coyote said, "Let there be as many moons in the year as there are feathers in Flicker's tail." Grizzly Bear agreed, because he thought there were many feathers in Flicker's tail.
Now, when they counted, there were only twelve feathers in Flicker's tail. But it was too late to make
​any change. So Coyote said, "Hereafter in a year there shall be six months of warm weather and six months in which it may snow and be cold."
Thus Coyote saved the people from living in darkness, and from very long, cold winters.
# Myths and Legends of British North America/How Raven Brought Fire (Haida)

HOW RAVEN BROUGHT FIRE
Haida
AT THAT time there was no fire to be seen. They did not even know of it. Raven went northward on the surface of the sea. Far out at sea a big kelp was growing out of the water, but the kelp head was gone, and many sparks came out of it. This was the first time that Raven had ever seen fire.
Then Raven went along to it on the bottom of the sea. Then the big fishes—the Black Whales, and the Dolphins, and others—wanted to kill him as he went along. Owner-of-the-Fire was the one to whom he went.
When Raven entered his house, Owner-of-the-Fire said to him, "Come and sit here, chief." Raven said, to him, "Will the chief give me fire?"
Owner-of-the-Fire gave fire to Raven, as he had been desired, and when he gave it to him, he put it in a stone tray. A cover was over it.
Raven went away with it. After he had gone up to the shore, Raven put a fragment of live coal into a cedar standing there. Because he put fire into the cedar, when people want to start a fire they use a drill of cedar, because fire comes from it.
# Morgan Envelope Company v. Albany Perforated Wrapping Paper Company

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United States Supreme Court
152 U.S. 425
Morgan Envelope Company v. Albany Perforated Wrapping Paper Company
This was a bill in equity to recover damages for the infringement of three letters patent issued to Oliver H. Hicks, of Chicago, and assigned to the appellant, viz.: Patent No. 325,410, issued September 1, 1885, for a 'package of toilet paper,' known as the 'Oval Roll' or 'Oval King' package; (2) patent No. 325,174, issued August 25, 1885, for a 'toilet-paper fixture;' (3) patent No. 357,993, issued February 15, 1887, for an 'apparatus for holding toilet paper.' These are known as the 'Oval King' fixtures.
The answer made the usual denials of novelty and infringement.
Upon a hearing upon pleadings and proofs, the court dismissed the bill, except as to the fifth claim of patent No. 357,993, upon which a decree was ordered for plaintiff, without costs. 40 Fed. 577. From this decree plaintiff appealed to this court.
Melville Church, Joseph B. Church, and C. E. Mitchell, for appellant.
Esek Cowen, for appellee.
Mr. Justice BROWN, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Morgan's Executor v. Gay

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United States Supreme Court
86 U.S. 81
Morgan's Executor v. Gay
ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus:
The eleventh section of the Judiciary Act, which gives jurisdiction to the Circuit Courts of suits 'between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State,' enacts, nevertheless, that no Circuit Court shall 'have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made; except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.'
This statute being in force, Gay, as indorsee of three several inland bills of exchange, drawn or accepted by one Morgan, in his life, sued his executor upon them. Two of the bills were indorsed by the payees, and the third by its payee and by other indorsers.
The plaintiff in his petition described himself as a citizen of Kentucky, and described the defendant as a citizen of Louisiana, but said nothing about the citizenship of the payees of the bills, nor, in the case of that one indorsed by subsequent indorsers, of the citizenship of these.
The defendant pleaded the statute of limitations, general issue, &c.
The cause was called for trial, the plaintiff being represented by counsel; but the counsel for the defendant not being present. The cause was submitted for hearing to the court without a jury, and without any written stipulation such as that which, when made in writing and filed with the clerk of the court, the act of March 3d, 1865, allows to have the effect of waiving a jury. The court overruled the plea, determined that the case was made out, and rendered a judgment for the plaintiff for the sum of the three bills, with interest and costs.
The defendant now brought the case here for review.
Messrs. J. A. and D. G. Campbell, for the plaintiff in error; no opposing counsel.
Mr. Justice STRONG delivered the opinion of the court.

## Notes

* ↑ The act referred to enacts:
'Issues of fact in civil cases, in any Circuit Court . . . may be tried and determined by the court without the intervention of a jury, whenever the parties or attorneys of record file a stipulation in writing with the clerk of the court waiving a jury.'
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# Morgan's Executor v. Gay/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
86 U.S. 81
Morgan's Executor v. Gay
The plaintiff is an assignee of the bills within the meaning of the eleventh section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, and by the express provisions of the section is not entitled to maintain his action in the Circuit Court, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the contents of the bills if no assignment had been made. But the petition does not show that the indorsers through whom the plaintiff claims were not citizens of Louisiana at the time the suit was brought. It is true, the citizenship of the defendant is averred to have been in Louisiana, and that of the plaintiff in Kentucky, but there is no averment of the citizenship of the payees of the bills, or of the citizenship of the subsequent indorsers. For aught that appears in the record, they may also be citizens of Louisiana; and, therefore, incapable of suing in the Circuit Court for that district to recover the contents of the bills. As that court has only a limited jurisdiction, it must appear affirmatively that it may take cognizance of the controversy between the parties. In Turner v. The Bank of North America, it was distinctly ruled that when an action upon a promissory note is brought in a Federal court by an indorser against the maker, not only the parties to the suit, but also the citizenship of the payee, and the indorser, must be averred in the record to be such as to give the court jurisdiction. The same rule was asserted in Montalet v. Murray, in Mollan v. Torrance, and in Gibson et al. v. Chew. The judgment must, therefore, be reversed, and the cause sent back that amendment may be made in the pleadings showing the citizenship of the indorser of the bills, if it be such as to give the court jurisdiction of the case.
We may notice another error which will doubtless be avoided should there be a second trial. Issues of fact appear to have been made up which were determined by the court in the absence of the defendant's counsel, and without any written agreement to waive a jury trial. This was irregular. In the absence of such an agreement, and of the defendant's counsel, it was not competent for the court to try the issue without the intervention of a jury.
JUDGMENT REVERSED, and the cause remanded for further proceedings.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS OPINION.

## Notes

* ↑ Turner v. Enrille, 4 Dallas, 7.
* ↑ Ib. 8.
* ↑ Cranch, 46.
* ↑ 9 Wheaton, 537.
* ↑ 16 Peters, 315.
* ↑ Kearney v. Case, 12 Wallace, 275.
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# New poems and variant readings/After Reading "Antony and Cleopatra"

AFTER READING "ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA"
As when the hunt by holt and field Drives on with horn and strife, Hunger of hopeless things pursues Our spirits throughout life.
The sea's roar fills us aching full Of objectless desire— The sea's roar, and the white moon-shine, And the reddening of the fire.
Who talks to me of reason now? It would be more delight To have died in Cleopatra's arms Than be alive to-night.
# New poems and variant readings/Ad Martialem

AD MARTIALEM
Go(d) knows, my Martial, if we two could be To enjoy our days set wholly free; To the true life together bend our mind, And take a furlough from the falser kind. No rich saloon, nor palace of the great, Nor suit at law should trouble our estate; On no vainglorious statues should we look, But of a walk, a talk, a little book, Baths, wells and meads, and the veranda shade, Let all our travels and our toils be made. Now neither lives unto himself, alas! And the good suns we see, that flash and pass And perish; and the bell that knells them cries: "Another gone: O when will ye arise?"
# New poems and variant readings/Ad Olum

AD OLUM
| Call me not rebel, though | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | here at every word |
| Call me not rebel, though | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | in what I sing |
| If I no longer hail thee | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | King and Lord |
| If I no longer hail thee | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | Lord and King |
I have redeemed myself with all I had, And now possess my fortunes poor but glad. With all I had I have redeemed myself, And escaped at once from slavery and pelf. The unruly wishes must a ruler take, Our high desires do our low fortunes make: Those only who desire palatial things Do bear the fetters and the frowns of Kings; Set free thy slave; thou settest free thyself.
# New poems and variant readings/Ad Quintilianum

AD QUINTILIANUM
O chief director of the growing race, Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace, Me, O Quintilian, may you not forgive Before from labour I make haste to live? Some burn to gather wealth, lay hands on rule, Or with white statues fill the atrium full. The talking hearth, the rafters sweet with smoke, Live fountains and rough grass, my line invoke: A sturdy slave, not too learned wife, Nights filled with slumber, and a quiet life.
# New poems and variant readings/Ad Se Ipsum

AD SE IPSUM
Dear sir, good-morrow! Five years back, When you first girded for this arduous track, And under various whimsical pretexts Endowed another with your damned defects, Could you have dreamed in your despondent vein That the kind God would make your path so plain? Non nobis, domine! O, may He still Support my stumbling footsteps on the hill!
# New poems and variant readings/Ad Magistrum Ludi

AD MAGISTRUM LUDI
(Unfinished Draft.)
Now in the sky And on the hearth of Now in a drawer the direful cane, That sceptre of the ... reign, And the long hawser, that on the back Of Marsyas fell with many a whack, Twice hardened out of Scythian hides, Now sleep till the October ides.
In summer if the boys be well.