The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-20

you can kill all the game you wish.
He got on and the snake took him
home. When he got home the people
were very much surprised to see him.
warrior of the tribe The people liked
him after that. Finally he became
| chief of the tribe"
After the Shadow.
A Blackfoot legend tells of an old
man who offended rock and was
! chased by it until he crawled into a
hole. The rock blocked the hole. but
n fox, who was with the man, dug "A
hole under the rock and the man got
out, nearly famished. The legend goes
on to tell of his experiences as fol-
lows:
AS he came near a stream he saw
in the water some red berries. He was
hungry; he had to have some; so he
began to dive for the berries, but did
not succeed in getting any. SO he said
I have to have some He went and got
some rocks and cut strings from the
robe, tied the rocks to his neck, legs
and arms and plunged into the water.
After a long time he tried to come up
to the surface, but the rocks kept him
down. He struggled along until he
came to the top. HIS stomach was
full of water He felt pretty sick: he
lay down on his back and looked in
the trees and saw the berries on the
boughs overhead. The berries were
over the water. He said to himself:
4 was diving after the shadow of the
berries and l am nearly dead"
One of the legends is the story told
by Augustean. an old Pueblo in New
Mexico, about the origin of prairie
dogs. The Indians of the Staked
plains We're starving and an old man
named Loneliness determined to help
them out. He found magician asleep
in his camp and. he laid some roots
across the slumberer's mouth SO he
could not awake. Then he stole the
magician's roles of bark and studied
them. The rolls told of magic ar
row that would bring n lot Of little
animals when shot into the air" Lon
Illness shot 1t high into the air several
times and then broke it so it could
not be used against him. Then the
fat little prairie dogs began to bark
on every side and here was food for
his starving tribesmen.
Buffalo and Coyote.
Then there is the Cheyenne story of
the buffalon and the coyote which
was weary of having to hunt meat for
itself when all the buffalo had to do
was to reach down and eat the grass
at his feet. So the coyote complained
to the buffalo that he sometimes had
to eat what you would not come
close to- The buffalo said he would
help the coyote out of his trouble
If the coyote would not try to do the
same for any of his kind and the coy
ote promised, SO here is what the buf.
falo said:
THE first thing the buffalo did was
to dig a deep ditch with his horns
then he told the coyote to stand at one
end while he stood at the other end
and he said to him: Il will run at yo,,
as hard as | can. When you see me
coming do not move. When toss you
In the air as soon as yo utouch the
ground YOU will be buffalo, The
coyote stood still and when he was
tossed into the tir he was changed in
To fine buffalo.
But the coyote did not keep his
promise. He went through the same
process for a brother coyote, then
THE real buffalo happened to wake
and saw what was going on. but he
acted as II he fas asleep, and he said
to- himself: When you both touch the
ground you will be coyotes again.
They both went into the air, but when
they touched the ground they were
both coyotes again. The coyote was
SO ashamed of himself he did not
know what TO do. He ran into the tall
grass and hid.