| Show LEGEND OP OF CREATION part I 1 in the beginning of time the were no mountains no streams no hunting grounds and no forests in those days there were no red md men roaming the plains no buffalo no antelope I 1 no deer and no other living beings even was there no na eat earth th but only the blue sky and the clouds and the sun sunshine hine anti and the rain the Afan manitou itou then dwelt only in in the center of the sky where he be lived all atone alone for there were no other gods in heaven then as now he be was ruler of the sky and the sun and the rain the lightning and the thunder too were at his command an and d the sun shone and the lain fell at his de dc sire but by and by lie grew tit ed and lonely one and wished for new things to see and new work to do ile he tool 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 bole he made larger and larger until he could look through it at the nothingness beyond and lie was pleased lie he then took the snow and the lain and poured them through the hole with them he also poured a great juanity of stone and dirt from the floor of heaven If eaven and the and the rain and the dirt and the stones fell from heaven into the nothing ness and he was pleased with his work by and by when he hid had thus poured 1 for a great many days he looked down and saw below him a great mounta mountain in which he had had with the rain and the snow the dirt and the rocks and far below the mountain he could see a creati plain which stretched ched away as far as he could see for great was the quantity of dirt and rock which he had poured seeing the mountain maun tain he be was de to know what lay beyond and what wonder the dirt and rock had worked so he be made the hole bole er until he was able to crawl abi through ough it and then step down from the floor of aromo col the sky to the summit of tire the great at mountain which he be had made when he had come down he found that the earth and the stones had spread out and formed tin this s vast voiad but it was a world of ba bare re rocks rock s and dirt and he at once wished for something to make it more beautiful to be continued |
