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yelpiug and barkiug after his game, but the- Mountain Sheep bounded 

 from rock to rock and was soon far away. Still the Coyote rushed crazily 

 about, until the Mountain Lion commanded him to be quiet. But the 

 Coyote smelled the blood of the Deer and was beside himself with hun- 

 ger. Then the Mountain Lion said to him disdainfully, "Satisfy thy 

 biinger on the blood that I have spilled, for to-day thou hast missed tliy 

 game ; and thus ever will tliy descendants like thee blunder in the chase. 

 As thou this day satistiest thy hunger, so also by the blood that the hun- 

 ter spills or the tlesh that he throws away shall thy descendants forever 

 Lave being." 



The corral was opened on the southern side. An Anteloi)e sprang 

 forth. With bounds less strong than those of the Mountain Lion, but 

 nimbler, the Wild Cat seized him and threw him to the ground. 



The corral was opened on the eastern side. Forth ran the (3-ho-li (or 

 albino antelope). The Wolf seized and threw him. The Jack Eabbit 

 was let out. The Eagle poised himself for a moment, then swooped 

 upon him. The Cotton Tail came forth. The Prey Mole waited in his 

 hole and seized him ; the Wood Eat, and the Falcon made him his prey ; 

 the Mouse, and the Ground Owl quickly caught him. 



While the We-ma-ilha-i were thus satisfying their hunger, the game 

 animals began to escape through the breaks in the corral. Forth through 

 the northern door rushed the Buflalo, the great Elk, and the Deer, and 

 toward thenorth the Mountain Lion, and theyellow SA-la-mo-pi-a swiftly 

 followed and herded them, to the world where stands the yellow mount- 

 ain, below the great northern ocean. 



Out through the western gap rushed the Mountain Sheep, herded and 

 driven by the Coyote and the blue Sa-la-mo-pia, toward the great west- 

 ern ocean, where stands the ancient blue mountain. 



Out through the southern gap rushed the Antelope, herded and driven 

 by the Wild Cat and the red S4-la-mopi-a, toward the great land of 

 summer, where stands the ancient red mountain. 



Out til rough the eastern gap rushed the 0-ho-li, herded and driven 

 by the Wolf and the white Sd-la-mo-pi-a, toward where "they say" is 

 the eastern ocean, the "Ocean of day", wherein stands the ancient white 

 mountain. 



Forth rushed in all directions the Jack Eabbit, the Cotton Tail, the 

 Eats, and the Mice, and the Eagle, the Falcon, and the Ground Owl cir- 

 cled high above, toward the great "Sky ocean," above which stands the 

 ancient mountain of many colors, and they drove them over all the 

 earth, that from their homes in the air they could watch them in all 

 places; and the Sa-la-mo-pi-a of many colors rose and assisted them. 



Into the earth burrowed the Eabbits, the Eats, and the Mice, from 

 the sight of the Eagle, the Falcon, and the Ground Owl, but the Prey 

 Mole and the black Sa-la-mo-pi-a thither followed them toward the 

 four caverns (wombs) of earth, beneath which stands the ancient black 

 mountain. 



