stump, and before he could climb out again he was as
black as the Uksu'hi.
Now they held another council, for still there was no tire, and the
world was cold, but birds, snakes, and four-footed animals, all had
some excuse for not going, because they were all afraid to venture
near the burning sycamore, until at last Kanane'skI Amai'vehi (the
Water Spider) said she would go. This is not the water spider that
looks like a mosquito, but the other one. with black downy hair and
red stripes on her body. She can run on top of the water or dive to
the bottom, so there would be no trouble to get over to the island, but
the question was. How could she bring back the tire; "•I'll manage
that," said the Water Spider; so she spun athread from her bodj and
wove it into a tusti bowl, which she fastened on her back. Then she
crossed over to the island and through the grass to where the tire was
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still burning. She put one little coal of fire into her bowl, and came
back with it, and ever since we have had fire, and the Water Spider still
keeps her tusti bowl.
3. KANA'TI AND SELU: THE ORIGIN OF GAME AND CORN
When I was a boy this is what the old men told me they had heard
when they were boys.
Long years ago, soon after the world was made, a hunter and his
wife lived at Pilot knob with their only child, a little boy. The
father's name was Kana'ti (The Lucky Hunter), and his