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Show The Ice Man and the Bad Fire God Have a Quarrel I , a BY CHIEF THAN I A long, long lime ayo n morning tli world wo full of sinok. Tho Indians I thought th- worlil va.i on fire The ier-J ier-J 1I unt to si-f thr plact uhrrr the fire I v, anrl found a cotton wood inc which i hod l-een on fire. The fire had 1 urneo I the tree, and then had none clear down tr the ends f lh r.x.t- ..f It, and had 1 begun to burn the w. rl.!. I When the people saw that, they mid that the fire had turned Into I bad irod. I and would burn the whole world UltlSI I ' the bad ho1 eould be killed. They were I : terribly afiald. and did not know how i ! to kill him i Hut the Medicine. Man told them that i In the nqrthland there was an old man ' with white hair, who eould pot the fire lout. Bo they ent a r-out to the north-land north-land to fetch him. Itut ihe CQVt came bai k and nnld that as soon as he hixv, the Whits haired one. he felt iieer, and i his teeth rattled together so fast that I he eould not talk. The next i out. they sent made good medicine by Ulllng rabnltM and wrnppii i their sklr.s aroOOO Ri bod Then h " not feel iiueer. his teeth did not rattle. nr did Ids feet get n-imb. So. he fer. h -ed the white haired Old mnn When the! white haired ontj rame near the people they began to feel fivieer. th'lr teetli began be-gan to re.ttle and the began to be afrnld. Bul thos made msdlclne of rabijit skins, as the ICOUI had. and they did not feel i cjueer anv more. Then ihe asked the man tO kill Ihe! had fire g-id Hut he shook his head pO fast that hU long white htlr ito -l OUl in eery direction and he -aid Pi-rr-rh' -, SO loud that they all ran away In fear. Nov.- they Haw through the smoke a' haired woman Ac ald that thl wa the white haired man's wife. HIh1 name wa lee Man. He bad been pi.np so lKig from home that xhe had come to take him back She mw him otaniMng nn the edge of the fire hole, and went tip and tried t get him to gC back With her. I And she gut angry at him betiause he was changed so, for his hair - turning turn-ing black. She got so angry that She pushed the tee Man Into the big fire hole, and she fell In after him. The bad fir.- i,'l turned 1 ith Of them Into water, which pllt the fire out. Then the water filhd the 1I hole and made a lake. .r..i t.. Ibis day the yoiees of the fe,. Man and ills wife can be beard in the bottom of! the Ink. (uarrelinii. So the people lay that fire Is a good place for the ci Man and his wife (Copyright, is20. N B. a |