OTHER MEN 



lildren were living, and told them all he had 

 lone for the three men who had come out of the 



i-pod, and how well he had them fixed up. 



I must have you live as well as they do," he 

 lid. " Your land looks rather barren, and you 

 ive no houses." 



That night while the people slept he caused 

 )irch, spruce, and cottonwood trees to spring up 



the low places, and when the people awoke in 



e morning they clapped their hands in delight, 

 For the birds were singing in the tree-tops and 

 the green leaves with the sunlight flickering 

 through them made it seem like a fairy land. 

 And they were delighted with the shade of the 

 trees in which they could sit and watch the quiver- 

 ing lights and shadows which the fluttering of the 

 leaves made. 



Then Raven taught these people how to build 

 houses out of the trees and bushes, and how to 

 make fire with a fire-drill, and to place the spark 

 of tinder in a bunch of dry grass and wave it 

 about until it blazed, and then put dry wood upon 

 it. He showed them how to put a stick through 

 their fish and hold it in the fire, till it was a thou- 

 sand times more delicious than when raw. He 

 took willow twigs and strips of willow bark, and 

 made traps for catching fish; and, best of all, he 



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