54 The Mountaineer 
“Misp shows men how to kill us and use 
our meat and our skins, so I am going to kill 
Misp.” 
“Ah, that is a fine knife. Let me see it.” 
Then Misp, who was not recognized by the 
deer, seized two of the knives and holding the 
frightened deer by the neck, he plunged a 
knife on each side of the deer’s head and then 
shouted : 
“Now run, jump, then stop, look around! 
That is the way vou will always do when my 
people hunt you for food.” 
When you see one of these large mussel 
QUENIULT INDIAN BOY shells you will see how much it looks hke a 
deer’s ear and when you see a deer on the beach you will see how 
it still acts just as Misp told it to do. 
STEALING FIRE FROM HEAVEN 
The animals of the land sent a challenge for battle to the animals 
of the sky. No answer came and the challenge was repeated again and 
again. The animals of the sky seemed only to laugh at the challenge. 
Then the animals of the land asked the animals of the sea to 
come and help them carry the battle up into the sky. The animals of 
the sea joined the animals of the land. Together they searched the 
forest for the largest and strongest yew tree. Of this they made a 
huge bow. Then they gathered all the sinew 
they could get and made of it a great cord for 
the bow. Then they searched the forest again 
for strong straight arrows. 
When all was ready they pulled together 
and shot an arrow into the sky. Before it 
turned to fall a second arrow was shut up to 
touch the first one, and then a third one, and 
so on until they had made a rope of arrows 
from the land to the sky. 
Then the animals of the sea and the animals 
of the land climbed up the arrow rope to give 
battle to the animals of the sky. Very soon 
they came to a river. 
“Can't you see the river?” asked Johnny 
Shales, as he waved his hand toward the Milky 
Way. 
A QUENIULT INDIAN TYPE 
