292. THE MAIDU. 
down to the stream to get some water in her basket, and saw the beautiful 
ball rolling and shining in the water. She tried to dip it up in her basket. 
But it would rollaway. She said, ‘“ Sister, come and help me catch this beau- 
tiful ball.” The sister came. They tried a long time, but finally caught it 
in the basket. It was bright and very pretty. They were afraid it would 
get away. One held it for a time, and then the other. They were very 
glad. At night they put it between them in the bed. They kept awake a 
long time and talked about their prize. But at last they fell asleep. They 
woke in the morning—the ball was gone—there was lying between them a 
full-grown young man. And that was the first man that ever came on the 
earth. This was a long time ago. 
CREATION AND FALL OF MAN. 
K6-do-yam-peh, the world-maker, and Hel’-lo-kai-eh, the devil, came 
from the east to We-lé-u-deh. Kodoyampeh said he would make a man, 
but Hellokaieh told him he could not do it, and dared him to attempt it. 
But Kodoyampeh repeated that he could do it. So he went out and got 
two smooth, yellow sticks (yo-ké-lon-cha), and laid them on the bed beside 
him at evening, and said they would turn into aman and woman during 
the night, but they would not by day. 
So the world-maker and the devil went to bed. Through the night 
the devil often waked up his companion and asked him if the two sticks 
had turned to a man and a woman yet. He made fun of him, and asked 
him if he felt them move about in the bed. But Kodoyampeh replied that 
he must not trouble him, or it would not happen. 
Thus the night passed away, and early in the morning Kodoyampeh 
felt two touches on his body. Looking up quick, he saw a man and a 
woman. He rose from his bed, and made them get up and go bathe them- 
selves and then come and eat. When Hellokaieh came in he claimed the 
woman as his sister and the man as his brother-in-law. Kodoyampeh suf- 
fered this for the time. 
Then the devil said to Kodoyampeh that if he would give him two 
sticks he would do the same thing, and create a man and a woman. 
Kodoyampeh did so, and the devil took the two sticks and laid them beside 
