NEW YORK AND LONDON
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press
1901
Copyright, 1901
by
EMILY T. M. CUSHING
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
LIST OF TALES
| PAGE | |
| The Trial of Lovers: or the Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather | [1] |
| The Youth and his Eagle | [34] |
| The Poor Turkey Girl | [54] |
| How the Summer Birds Came | [65] |
| The Serpent of the Sea | [93] |
| The Maiden of the Yellow Rocks | [104] |
| The Foster-child of the Deer | [132] |
| The Boy Hunter who never sacrificed to the Deer he had slain: or the origin of the Society of Rattlesnakes | [150] |
| How Áhaiyúta and Mátsailéma stole the Thunder-stone and the Lightning-shaft | [175] |
| The Warrior Suitor of Moki | [185] |
| How the Coyote joined the dance of the Burrowing-owls | [203] |
| The Coyote who killed the Demon Síuiuki: or why Coyotes run their noses into deadfalls | [215] |
| How the Coyotes tried to steal the Children of the Sacred Dance | [229] |
| The Coyote and the Beetle | [235] |
| How the Coyote danced with the Blackbirds | [237] |
| How the Turtle out hunting duped the Coyote | [243] |
| The Coyote and the Locust | [255] |
| The Coyote and the Ravens who raced their eyes | [262] |
| The Prairie-dogs and their priest, the Burrowing-owl | [269] |
| How the Gopher raced with the runners of K’iákime | [277] |
| How the Rattlesnakes came to be what they are | [285] |
| How the Corn-pests were ensnared | [288] |
| Jack-rabbit and Cottontail | [296] |
| The Rabbit Huntress and her adventures | [297] |
| The Ugly Wild Boy who drove the Bear away from Southeastern Mesa | [310] |
| The Revenge of the Two Brothers on the Háwikuhkwe, or the Two Little Ones and their Turkeys | [317] |
| The Young Swift-runner who was stripped of his Clothing by the Aged Tarantula | [345] |
| Átahsaia, the Cannibal Demon | [365] |
| The Hermit Mítsina | [385] |
| How the Twins of War and Chance, Áhaiyúta and Mátsailéma, fared with the Unborn-made Men of the Underworld | [398] |
| The Cock and the Mouse | [411] |
| The Giant Cloud-swallower | [423] |
| The Maiden the Sun made love to, and her Boys: or the origin of anger | [429] |