A TEEASUEY OF ESKIMO TALES 



After he had cut up this deer, he placed its fat 

 upon a bush and then fell asleep. When he 

 awoke he was very angry to find that the mosqui- 

 toes had eaten all of it. Until this time mosqui- 

 toes had never bitten people; but Man scolded 

 them for what they had done, and said: " Never 

 eat our meat again; eat men," and since that day 

 mosquitoes have always bitten people. 



Where First Man lived there had now grown 

 a large village, for the people did everything as 

 Raven had directed, aim as soon as a child was 

 born it was rubbed with clay and thus grew to its 

 full stature in three days. 



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