there was only one Snake on
the whole world, and he was a big one, I tell you.  He was pretty to
look at, and was painted with all the colors we know.  This snake was
proud of his clothes and had a wicked heart.  Most Snakes are wicked,
because they are his relations.

"Now, I have not told you all about it yet, nor will I tell you
to-night, but the Moon is the Sun's wife, and some day I shall tell you
that story, but to-night I am telling you about the Snakes.

"You know that the Sun goes early to bed, and that the Moon most always
leaves before he gets to the lodge.  Sometimes this is not so, but that
is part of another story.

"This big Snake used to crawlif the Deer has no gall on its liver.
Maybe she can show both the liver of a Deer and that of an Antelope;
then we can see for ourselves," said Bluebird.

So they began to look about where the hides had been grained for
tanning; and sure enough, there were the feet of both the antelope and
the deer.  On the deer's feet, or legs, they found the dew-claws, but
on the antelope there were none.  This made them all anxious to know
why these animals, so nearly alike, should differ in this way.

Bluebird's mother passed the children on her way to the river for
water, and the little girl asked: "Say, mother, does the Deer have gall
on his liver?"

"No, my child, but the Antelope does; and your grandfather will tell
you why if