Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-30
IN OLD INDIAN MYTH.
It Tells a Curious Story About
 the Creation.
MOUNT TAHoMA MADE FIRST.
Then Game the Trees, the Birds, the Fishes and All the Animals, With t.io Grizzly Bear the Last and tho Great est Of All-The Origin of Man.

est Of AII-The Origin of Man.
 The Indians say that the Great Spirit made Mount Tahoma the first of all. Boring hole In the sky, using large stone ns m auger, he pushed down snow and ice until they reached the desired height. then stepped from cloud to cloud down to the great icy pile and from 1t to the earth. where he planted the 0rat trees by merely put ting his finger Into the soil here and there. The sun began to melt the snow. the snow produced water. the water ran down the side of the noun rivers. The Great Spirit gathered the leaves that fell from the trees. blew upon them. and they became birds. He took stick and broke 1t into pieces. Of the small end he made fishes, and of the middle of the stick he made ami mals, the grizzly bear excepted, which he formed from the big end of the stick, appointing him to be master over all the others.
 Indeed. this animal grew so large. strong and cunning that the Creator somewhat feared him and so hollowed out Mount Tahoma as a wigwam for himself where he might reside while on earth in the most perfect security and comfort. So the smoke was soon to be seen curling up from the noun tain where the Great Spirit and his family lived and still live. though their hearth fire is alight no longer, now that the white man is in the land. This was thousands of snows ago.
 After this came late and severe springtime, in which a memorable storm blew up from the sea, shaking the huge lodge to its base The Great Spirit commanded his daughter, then little more than an infant, to go up and bid the wind to be still, cautioning her at the same time not to put her head out into the blast, but only to thrust out her little arm and make sign be- fore she delivered her message
 The eager child hastened up to the | hole in the roof, did as she was told and then turned to descend, but her curiosity impelled her to look at the forbidden world outside and the rivers and treees, at the far ocean and the great waves that the storm had made as hoary as the forest when the snow is on the frs. So she stopped and put out her head to look. Instantly the storm took her by the. long hair and blew her down to the earth. down the mountain side, over the smooth ice and soft snow, down to the land of the grizzly bears.
 Now, the grizzly bears were then somewhat different from what they are at the present time. In appear ance, it is true, they were much the same, but they walked then on their hind legs like men and talked and carried clubs, using the fore limbs as men use their arms. At the foot of the mountain. at the place where the child was blown to. lived family of griz- zlies. The father grizzly was return ing from the hunt with his club on his shoulder and young elk in his hand 1 when he saw the shivering little waif lying on the snow with her hair all 1 tangled about her.
 The old grizzly, pitying and wonder ing at the strange, forlorn creature, lifted 1t up and carried it in to his wife to see what should be done. She, too, was pitiful and fed 1t from her own breast, bringing 1t up as one of their l family. So the daughter of the Great Spirit grew up, and the eldest son of the ol,l grizzly married her. and their offspring was neither grizzly nor Great Spirit but man-Forest and Stream