safety.
The Bears were the first to meet in council in their townhouse under
Kuwa'hi mountain, the "Mulberry place," and the old White Bear
chief presided. After each in turn had complained of the way in which
Man killed their friends, ate their flesh, and used their skins for his
own purposes, it was decided to begin war at once against him. Some
one asked what weapons Man used to destroy them. " Bows and arrows,
of course,*' cried all the Bears in chorus. "And what are they made
of ] " was the next question. "The bow of wood, and the string of our
entrails." replied one of the Bears. It was then proposed that they
make a bow and some arrows and see if the} T could not use the same
weapons against Man himself. So oneby the
drops of blood on the ground, until he arrives at his cabin in the set-
tlement, when the Little Deer enters invisibly and strikes the hunter
with rheumatism, so that he becomes at once a helpless cripple. No
hunter who has regard for his health ever fails to ask pardon of the
Deer for killing it, although some hunters who have not learned the
prayer may try to turn aside the Little Deer from 'his pursuit by
building a fire behind them in the trail.
Next came the Fishes ami Reptiles, who had their own complaints
against Man. They held their council toe-ether and determined to
make their victims dream of snakes twining about them in slimy folds
and blowing foul breath in their faces, or to make them dream of
eating raw or decaying tish.so that they