The Wind People took out all the food and clothes they had and loaded the skin boat heaping full. Creator drove back his mice which dragged the loaded skin boat home. Then he returned to the village of the Wind People. They loaded his skin boat again and he carried off everything they had. Then Creator’s mice gnawed the straps off all the sledges and harness of the Wind People. Thus the Wind People could not drive any more and the snowstorm ceased. That’s all.
TRICKS OF THE FOX
Koryak (Siberia)
ONE day Fox said to his children, “I am going to get some eggs.” He went to the woods and saw Eagle’s nest high up in a tree. He put some grass stalks into his ears, knocked with them on the tree, and said to Eagle, “Throw me down an egg. If you don’t, I will knock the tree over with these stalks and break it.”
Eagle became frightened and threw down an egg.
“Throw down another,” said Fox.
“That’s enough,” said Eagle. “I will not throw down any more.”
Fox said, “Throw it down. If I knock down the tree, I’ll take them all.”
Eagle was frightened and threw down another egg. Then Fox laughed and said, “I fooled you nicely. How could I have knocked down a whole tree with these small grass stalks?”