IN LEGEND AND FABLE 35 



was a hole for entrance. A great liiany 

 people approached and gathered around the 

 strangers, but they said nothing. 



The first world was red in color; the 

 second world, into which the people had 

 now entered, was blue. They sent out two 

 couriers, a Locust and a White Locust, to 

 the east, to explore the land and see if there 

 were in it any people like themselves. At 

 the end of two days the couriers returned, 

 and said that in one day's travel they had 

 reached the edge of the world — the top of a 

 great cliff which arose from an abyss whose 

 bottom they could not see ; but that they 

 found in all their journey no people, no ani- 

 mals of any kind, no trees, no grass, no 

 sagebrush, no mountains, nothing but bare 

 level ground. The same couriers were then 

 dispatched in turn to the south, to the west, 

 and to the north. They were gone on each 

 journey two days, and when they returned 

 related, as before, that they had reached the 

 edge of the world, and discovered nothing 



