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Show from the floor of Heaven. And the snow and the rain and the dirt and , the stones fell from Heaven Into : the nothingness. And he was pleased pleas-ed with his work. By and by when he had thus poured for a great many many days he looked down and saw below him a great mountain which he had builded with the rain and the snow, the dirt and rocks. And far below the mountain he could see a great j plain which stretched away and away as far as he could see for great was the quantity of dirt and rock which he had poured.' Seeing the mountain, he was curious curi-ous to know what lay beyond and what wonder the dirt and rock had worked. So he made the hole big-j big-j ger until he was able to crawl ' through it and step down from the floor of the sky to the summit or the great mountain which he had made. When he had come down he found that the earth and the stones had spread out and formed this vast world. But it was a world of bare rocks and dirt; and he at once wished for something to make It more beautiful. (To be continued.) : UTE LEGEND OF CREATION Part I In the beginning of time there were no mountains, no streams, no hunting grounds and no forests. In thse days there wcre no red mCn roaming the plains, no buffalo, no antelope, no deer, and no other living liv-ing beings. Even was there no earth, but only the blue sky and the ; clouds and the sunshine and the rain. The Manltou then dwelt only in the center of the sky where he lived liv-ed all alone, for there were no oth-er oth-er gods in heaven.. Then as now he was ruler of the sky and the sun and the rain. The lightning and the thunder too were at his command, and the sun shone and the rain fell at his desire. But by and by he grew tired and lonely and wished for neay things to see and new work to do. So he took a stone and whirled it round and round until he bored a hole through the floor of Heaven, which is the sky. And the hole he made larger until he could look through it at the nothingness beyond. And he was pleased. He then took the snow and the rain and poured them through the hole. With them he also poured a . great quanity of stone and dirt |
