Show ie V issai 2 UTE LEGION OF CREATION pait 1 in the be beginning inning of time there no mountains no streams no hunting grounds and no forest in those days there were no red men roaming the plains no buffalo no i antelope no deer and no other living beings even was there no earth but only the blue sky and the clouds and the sun sunshine and the rain the manitou then dwelt only in the center ot of the sky where lie he lived all alone for there were no other 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 cesire but by and by he grew tired and lonely and wished tor for new things to see and new work to do so lie h e look a stone and whirled it arlund and round until he bored a hole through the floor of heaven which is the sky and the hole he made larger and larger until he could look through it at tho the nothingness s beyond and he was pleased JT jle 9 then took the snow enow and the rain and poured the hem pi through the hole wt them 1 hem he also polli eq ft a gret quantity of stone and abild dirt from the floor of ef heaven abild aar vl he snow and the rain and t the h e dirt and the stones fell from heaven into he e nothingness and he was wasi filea sect with hj hs work york by and by when lit he had t thus h us poured for a great many days he be asked k q down and saw below him si great mountain wh which ica he had bac with the rain and the snow W the dirt and the rocks and tar tai below the inpyn tain he could se see 4 a great plain which stretched away way and away as far as he be could see for great was the quantity of dirt and rock which lie he had poured ahr ihs mountain lie he was curious lou to k know what lay beyond and what wonder fhe he darf dh t and rock had worked so he made the hole bi bigger g u until he was able to crawl thru it t and then step down from the floor ot of the sky to the summit of the great mountain which he had made when he had come down he found that the earth and the stone had spread out and formed this vast world but it 4 was a world of 0 barq bare rocks and dirt and he at once wished for something to make it more beautiful to be continued I 1 |