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Show ' -C- j j I How Sinti, Tricky Giant, Tricked j! j Himself by Being Lazy j jj BY CHIEF TAHAN. j Sinti, the long-legged giant, was out f m 'the prairie hunting, ono day, Sud- I, ienly he saw Scttim (the bear) sitting ijfi on n hill beside the body of a buffalo it .vhicli he had killed, r , "Hah!" said SinU to himself, "here I. 3 where I get some buffalo meat with- r i Dut going to the trouble of killing a I i buffalo myself." jSj j SinU crept up behind Settim and aj gave his loudest war whoop. That MB frightened the bear so that he Jumped wf :lear over the buffalo, ijll, "Gr-rr-rh!'" growled the bear as he 9 , II -v stood up on his hind feet and showed M ; Ift- his 'teeth. "I feel like eating you." j jir "Oh, don't feel bad in your heart," L ! said Sinti. "Now my friend, let us jail have a little jumping match. The one Hil of us who can jump over the buffalo Hjflj lengthwise can have It. You take the ll tirst jump, too." Hjfd Tho bear stood up on his hind feet, HIP Dacked off, gave a hale run and Hip "Whuh!'- he grunted as he came Ik lown on the middle of the buffalo. i "Heh! heh!" laughed SinU. "That was a good jump for you to make, but watch me." At the last word Sinti stooped low, leaped clear over the buffalo and never nev-er touched a hair. "Heh! heh! ' again laughed the giant, "how very easy it Is for me to get buffalo meat. Now Settim, my friend," said he, "you stay here and watch the buffalo while I fetch my wife and children to a feast." AVhen the giant returned with his family expecting to have a fine feast. Settim was gone, and in tho place where Sinti had left the buffalo, there was only a pile of his bones. Wolves had eaten tho meat. When Sintl's wife isaw ihe bones she became angry. She ; picked up one bone after another and threw them at her husband. "Take that! and that:" she cried, "you are a lazy, dishonest hunter. You thought to get meat without killing it 'yourself. And now because you are I tricky we all have to go hungry. This is what happens to all lazy tricksters. They always trick themselves." Sinti leaped over the buffalo and never touched a hair. i Tho giant ran over the hill, and there a deer jumped up. He threw his war club and crippled it, hut he had to follow it till sundown before ho caught it. When Sinti carried the deer to his camp it was dark, but before his wife would smilo at him he had to cook her some deer meal. (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A. |