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bank they were all built as close to the north wall as the avalanches of 
snow and ice would permit, in order to get the benefit of the sunshine, just 
as Mr. Hutchings’s winter cottage is to-day. If they had been intended 
only for summer occupation they would have been placed, according to In- 
dian custom, close to the river. And the fact that the Indians all leave the 
valley in the winter nowadays makes nothing against this theory, for they 
have become so dependent on the whites for the means of making a liveli- 
hood that they would go near to perish if they remained. 
LEGEND OF TU-TOK-A-NU -LA. 
There were once two little boys living in the valley who went down 
to the river to swim. After paddling and splashing about to their hearts’ 
content they went on shore and crept up on a huge bowlder that stood be- 
side the water, on which they lay down in the warm sunshine to dry them- 
selves. Very soon they fell asleep, and slept so soundly that they never 
wakened more. Through sleeps, moons, and snows, winter and summer, 
they slumbered on. Meantime the great rock whereon they slept was 
treacherously rising day and night, little by little, until it soon lifted them 
up beyond the sight of their friends, who sought them everywhere weeping. 
Thus they were borne up at last beyond all human help or reach of human 
voice, lifted up into the blue heavens, far up, far up, until they scraped 
their faces against the moon; and still they slumbered and slept year after 
year safe amid the clouds. Then upon a time all the animals assembled 
together to bring down the little boys from the top of the great rock. 
Every animal made a spring up the face of the wall as far as he could leap. 
The little mouse could only jump up a handbreadth; the rat, two hand- 
breadths; the raccoon, little further, and so on, the grizzly bear making a 
mighty leap far up the wall, but falling back in vain, like all the others. 
Last of all the lion tried, and he jumped up further than any other animal 
had, but he too fell down flat on his back. Then came along an insignifi- 
cant measuring-worm, which even the mouse could have crushed by tread- 
ing on it, and began to creep up the rock. Step by step, a little at a time, 
he measured his way up until he presently was above the lion’s jump, then 
pretty soon out of sight. So he crawled up and up through many sleeps 
