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

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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]

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