THE WORLD-MAKER AND THE DEVIL. 293 
him on his bed. Many times during the night he looked to see if a man 
had appeared yet, but saw nobody. At last, about daybreak, he fell asleep. 
Presently he was awakened by two lusty thumps in the ribs, when he 
jumped up quickly, laughing, and saw two women, one with two eyes 
and the other with only one. He asked each one in turn, “Are you a 
man”? But each replied, “No, Iam a woman ; we are two sisters.” 
Then the devil was sorely perplexed, because he could do nothing 
without a man. He asked Kodoyampeh why he had not succeeded, and 
Kodoyampeh said it was because he had laughed, whereas he had expressly 
charged him not to laugh. The devil answered that he could not help it 
when he got two such sharp digs in the ribs. He asked Kodoyampeh if he 
would not make a man for him, but he refused. Then he asked him at 
least to make him a two-eyed woman; but Kodoyampeh said he could not 
do it until they were dead. This, then, is the reason why one-eyed men 
and women are seen in the world to-day.’ 
After this Kodoyampeh sent on the earth the man whom he had 
created to gather food from the face of it. Now, before this all the game 
and all the fish, the grasshoppers, the birds of the air, and the insects of 
the earth had been tame, so that a man had only to reach forth his hand 
among them and take whatever he wished for his food. Also the soil had 
been prolific up to this time, yielding all products, acorns, manzanita ber- 
ries, pine-nuts, and many kinds of rich grass-seed for the sustenance of 
man. So when Kodoyampeh sent forth the man whom he had made he 
told him to take freely of all that he saw and desired—of the game and the 
fish and the birds and the nuts, seeds, and berries—for all these things he 
had created for him. One injunction only he laid upon him, and that was 
that he should bring home to his house whatever he wished to cook, and 
not kindle a fire in the woods. 
So the man-went out to catch game, but the devil saw him and told 
him to cook in the woods whatever he wished. And he did so. Therefore 
all the game and the fish, all the grasshoppers, the birds, and the insects, 
when they saw the smoke in the woods, became wild, as they are to-day. 
More than that, the ground was changed, so that the oaks yielded no more 
acorns, and the manzanita bushes no more berries, nor was there anything 
