Show wa r A RT B RE 01 1 4 all UTE LEGION OF CREATION part two 1 manitou stooped and touched the earth with his fingers and where I 1 ever he touched it grass flo flowers and trees sprang forth and forest and meadows were made both on oil mountain and plain the sun shin which came through 0 the hole in the sky which he had made a also alio llio warmed the air and melted t the e snow and the water ran down the side of the mountain and made 1 streams and big rivers furthermore in the mountains and on the level of the plains great lakes iskes were and sew seas grew thus the created arid it was a world warmth and sunshine a pleas ant world where trees flowers grass and shrubs grew and the rain fell on the afternoon or of every day so that it indeed became very beautiful on seeing this he be was pleased and thereafter he be came down from his home in the sky every day to roam in the fields and to rest by the side of the streams or in the forests and the world became his playground ahers aher lie rested when his work in heaven was done but still there were no living crea creatures tures no birds and no beasts no bears and no wolves no buffalo and no deer no fishes anti and no men nothing but trees and grass and water so by and by b y he became lonely again and wished tor for some someone one to inhabit these lands land which he had made so beauLi beautiful ful some one with whom he could talk play or instruct so he created man and all the other living creatures and put them on en the earth making the former after his own likeness thus were all things created and he was much pleased egi |