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KAROK FABLES. 
There are many apologues and fables in vogue among the Karok, 
which gifted squaws relate to their children on winter evenings and through 
the weary days of the rainy season, while they are cooped up in their 
cabins; and some of them are not entirely unworthy of a place in that 
renowned old book written by one Adsop. A. few specimens are given 
here. ; 
FABLE OF THE ANIMALS. 
A great many hundred snows ago, Kareya, sitting on the Sacred 
Stool, created the world. First, he made the fishes in the big water, then 
the animals on the green land, and last of all, The Man. But the animals 
were all alike yet in power, and it was not yet ordained which should be 
for food to others, and which should be food for The Man. Then Kareyz 
bade them all assemble together in a certain place, that The Man might 
give each his power and his rank. So the animals all met together, a 
great many hundred snows ago, on an evening when the sun was set, that 
they might wait over night for the coming of The Man on the morrow. 
Now Kareya commanded The Man to make bows and arrows, as many as 
there were animals, and to give the longest to the one that should have the 
most power, and the shortest to the one that should have the least. So he 
did, and after nine sleeps his work was ended, and the bows and arrows 
which he made were very many. 
Now the animals being gathered together in one place, went to sleep, 
that they might rise on the morrow and go forth to meet The Man. But 
the coyote was exceedingly cunning, above all the beasts that were, he 
was so cunning. So he considered within himself how he might get the 
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