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friend," but he ])aid no attention to them and kept on pursuing Dry- 

 cloud. Tlien lie came to the wolf people and stayed there. 



One of the wolf chiefs thought a great deal of Fire-drill's son. 

 One time the wolves began talking about all those things that can 

 run very fast, and finally they spoke al)()ut the mountain goats, how 

 they can travel about easily among the cliffs, and said that they were 

 going out to hunt them. When they set out, all ran hard to see who 

 could kill the first one, but Fire-drill's son's dog killed a great num])er 

 before anyone could get near them, so many, in fact, that Fire-drill's 

 son took only the leaf lard home to show how many he had irotten. 

 Then the wolves all went up and brought down the dead goats, and 

 they felt very much ashamed that they, who were noted runners and 

 hunters, had gotten nothing. They wondered what they could do 

 to get even with Fire-drill's son. Then they took a quantity of 

 long stringy vines called mountain-eel (cayali't!i), made them into 

 rings and began playing with them. They would let these roll down 

 the sides of the mountains and jump through them when they were 

 at full speed. Anyone who got caught in one of these would l)o cut 

 in t\\(). 



Fire-drill's son's wolf friend said to him, however, "My friend, 

 don't go near those peo])le that are ])laying. You do not know any- 

 thing about the things they are using. They will kill you." He 

 answered, ''No, I will not ])lay with them, but let us watch them." 

 So they went out and watched them. Then Fire-drill's son said to 

 his dog, "Now, you play there and throw it as high as you can." So 

 the dog ])layed with it and threw it as high as he could. It was a 

 fine moonlight night, and the ring rolled right up to the moon, where 

 it l)ecame the ring you see there whenever there is going to be a 

 change in weather." After that his friend, the wolf chief, said to 

 the rest of the wolves, "You know that this son of Fire-drill is a 

 wonderful fellow. He can do anything. Do not tr\' to injure him 

 in anyway, but treat him as a friend."'' 



After that Fire-drill's son and his wolf friend went off together, 

 and the wolf said, "Some strange being walks around here. Don't 



a See story 3. 



h "This story is referred to in drawing the moral that one should never do anything spiteful or try 

 to get ahead of one who knows lietter. If he does he will always get the worst of it. This is why in 

 olden times the Indians lool^ed up to the chiefs and those of high caste, knowing that they had laeen 

 brought up and instructed l)etter than themselves, and never tried to get ahead of them. 



"It is also lirought up to the people how Fire-drill's son fed the young hawks instead of killing them. 

 If a young person is very cruel they say to him, 'If the hawk can be made a friend of mankind, why 

 can not you make friends with your enemies? If you want to be respected do not make enemies, but 

 friends always.' 



' ' They tell the young people that a bad fellow is always like the one-eyed man, trying to get advantage 

 of a good person. He is quick to say whatever comes into his mind, while the good man always thinks 

 first. Therefore whatever the latter says people know is right. They ask their children to choose 

 which of the two they would rather resemble. 



"Because the one-eyed man said, 'I did not kill your uncles or your mother's friends,' a murderer 

 nowadays will never come out and say, 'I am the one who killed that man.' He always tries to make 

 an innocent person suffer. As the one-eyed man's wife invited this boy to have something to eat in 



