the earth was
damp with her tears. At hist a little green shoot sprouted up and
gre^ day by day until it became the tall tree that we call now the
pine, and the pine is of the same nature as the stars and holds in
itself the same bright light.
n. THE MILKY WAY
Some people in the south hail a corn mill, in which they pounded
thi' corn into meal, and several mornings when they came to till it they
noticed that some of the meal had been stolen d urine- the night. They
examined the ground anil found the tracks of a doe'. s ( > the next night
the\ watched, and when the doe- came from the north and began to eat
the meal out of the howl they sprang out and whipped him. lieran
off howling to his home in the north, with the meal dropping from his
mouth as lie ran, and leaving behind a white trail where now weseethe
Milky Way. which the Cherokee call to this day (ii li'-utsun'stanufi'j i.
■• Where the doe- ran."
12. ORIGIN OF STRAWBERRIES
When the first man was created and a mate was given to him. they
lived together very happily for a time, hut then began to quarrel, until
at last the woman left her husband and started oh" toward Nund&gun'ja,
the Sun land, in the east. The man followed alone and grieving, but
the woman kept on steadily ahead and never looked behind, until
I'ne' lanun'hi, the great Apportioner (the Sun), took pity on him and
asked him if he was still angry with his wife. lb' said he was not. and
I'ne'