The Mountaineer 55 
They hastily sent to the land for Beaver who ean fight on land or 
in the water. Beaver swam across the river. On the other side he 
found a strange thing. In the house of one of the animals of the sky 
was a warm fire burning. He stole a piece of the fire and ran back to 
the river. 
The animals of the sky were then for the first time aroused. They 
saw their secret of fire being stolen. With wild shouts they gave chase. 
Beaver swam the river and slid down the rope with the precious fire. 
But the other animals of the sea and of the land became alarmed. 
So many started for the rope of arrows that it broke. That is the 
reason there are animals of the sea and animals of the land still up 
there in the sky. 
“There is the whale, there is the seal, and there is the bear.” 
P.M. McGregor 
CHIEF THREE KNIVES, THE CHIEFS TAHOLA, LITTLE BIG CHIEF 
