The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-03-17

he must not look out. If he does ne
will die
The Yunwi Tsunsdi stands for good
luck. They are very small, coming
only to a mans knee, though they are
good looking and we'll formed. They
snend most of their time drumming
and dancing. Many a lonely traveller
has heard them at nightfall far up
in the mountains drumming, drum
ming.
A man once saw a great number o.
small footprints in the snow like the
tracks of little children. He follow
ed the tracks till he came to the
mouth of cave. He looked in and
saw that the place was full OF Little
People. They beckoned him IN ara
led him through to the other end OF
the cave that opened on circular
green which was crowded with dane
ing, drumming Yuwi Tsunsdi. lt.ls a
wonder that the man ever got out
alive, for the Little People are very
particular and don't like for human
beings to pry into their affairs. But
they treated this man kindly and let
him 90 home after they had warned
him never, never to tell where ne had
been and what he had seen. For il
long, long time he did not tell any
one where he was during those few
DAYS he was away from home. At
last, though, he was so leased and
worried with questions (by his wife,
of course) that he told. And in i
short while he died!
There was an interesting Cherokee
legend about the first people who
lived on the earth. The first man
was Kanati. Kanati was a great
hunter. His wife, Selu, was the
mother of corn. One of the two sons
of Kanati and Selu was gentle ant
mild, like Abel. The other was evil
like Cain. Indeed he was so mis-
chievous that they called him Tht
Wild Boy was constantly persuadlne
his brother to do wrong. One day
he said to him: "Do you notice thai
whenever Kanati goes up on thu
mountain to hunt that he Away
brings back either fat buck or {
, turkey or some other kind Of meat
, | wonder where he finds all the ami
, mails he kills. We never see an.
game when we go out to hunt. LIE
| us follow him next time and Learn
, his secret"
In a few days Kanati started on
=, hunt. The boys followed him secret
ly, lodging behind bushes, trees o
= rocks whenever the man stopped an
z turned round to see if he was bein;
v watched. After trudging behind hii
r long distance, the boys saw kanat
|, stop on the mountain side near
e large flat stone that lay on tn
e ground. From their hiding place be
i hind a jutting crag they saw hir
l. stoop and lift the stone. In so dc
e ing he uncovered a wide, deep hol
d in the ground, from which deer il
S stantly bounded out. Quick d
o thought, Ksnati clapped the ston
i, over the hole, drew his bow and she
5 the deer. "Aha" said the Wild Bo,
= $50 that is where he gets his game
After Kanati had begged pardon {
!, the deer, lifted the burden to h
:. shoulder and started homeward, tt
s boys took a shorter route and rul
f ming rapidly reached the hut frs
j" When Kanati arrived he saw the
s standing in the doorway and did n
h suspect that he had been Swallowed
2. 1t was net long before the DO.
n went by themselves to visit the ar
NAL hole in the ground. When thu
y reached the spot, there was the fl
e stone. as before. But when they tri'
= to lift it they found it very heavy: S
a one on one side and one on the othe
Y. they were tugging and straining
d the stone with all their might whit
d suddenly it flew upward and the DO.
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