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pull his tongue out the next time he came homie and told everything. 
Then, being still angry, he caught hold of the dog’s tongue and pulled 
it as hard as hecould, and then he ran a stick across his mouth. Ever 
since then dogs have had long tongues and big mouths. 
49. WHY HAWKS HAVE THIN LEGS.* 
Chicken-Hawk was a poor hunter and never succeeded in bringing 
his family more than a little mouse or some game that he had begged 
from another hunter. One time he met Eagle and asked him if he 
would not help him kill an antelope that he had seen not very far away. 
Hawk pretended that he had killed many such big game before, and 
acted as if he were being kind to Eagle in asking him to help him. 
Eagle said he would if he could have half of the meat. Hawk said that 
he could, and so they agreed to go hunting for the antelope the next 
morning. Hawk went on home, and when he arrived he told his family 
that he had shot an antelope through the head, but that he could not 
kill him, and so he had run him intoa place for the night, and that he 
would return in the morning and kill him. Hawk arose the next 
morning and went to the place where he was to meet Eagle. They 
started on the hunt and hunted half a day. ‘They found the antelope 
in the mountain. Eagle killed it, and then Hawk came down and 
they divided the meat. Eagle took his meat and went away. Hawk 
took his meat and went straight home to show it to his family, for he 
was very proud of it. He told them that he had met a person who 
had never tasted antelope meat and who was a poor hunter, and so he 
had given him part of his meat, but that the person promised to pay 
him back some day. His family were so well pleased that they told 
every one what a good hunter Hawk was. One time, after the ante- 
lope meat was gone, a friend, who had heard what a good hunter Hawk 
was, came to visit him, especially to see if the reports were true. Hawk 
hunted all one day, but returned with only a mouse. ‘The friend 
refused to eat the mouse. Again Hawk hunted all day, but could not 
find anything. As he was returning home he felt so ashamed, that 
he cut some of the meat off of his legs to take home for his friend to 
eat, rather than admit that he had not found any game. For that 
reason hawks have no meat on their legs. 
* Told by White- Bread. 
