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Show Story Telling 83 songs and crept away while they still had their eyes closed. They didn't know whether he had crept away or if he still was there. When they opened their eyes, they found that no one was there. That was the old man's story of the field mice. The Bear: (Que ye qat) Many years ago, there lived a bear who was very mean and he would sleep by the only trail leading down the cliff. The cliff was steep and the other animals had a difficult time getting down the ledge with the bothersome bear in the way. When the other animals came down the trail, the bear saw their shadow and naturally he was prepared to attack them when they got near him. He usually kicked them over the cliff. Many people and animals were killed like this, and they couldn't figure out how the bear always knew just when they were approaching when he was so lazy and didn't spend much time watching for them. One day a man thought he would trick that sneaky old bear by making a false shadow and while the bear was busy kicking he would sneak by him. This is exactly what he did and succeeded in getting past the bear. The bear thus lost his reputation of being able to detect when people or animals were coming and decided it wasn't fun any more, so he gave up this sport. The other animals laughed at him because he had been tricked by a man. Two Indian Brothers Two Indian brothers decided that the time was right to go eagle hunting and in preparation for the climb up the steep cliffs, they braided a rope out of rawhide. One brother had a wife and it was he who fell into an eagle's nest when the other brother cut the rawhide. Since it was impossible for the boy who had fallen into the eagle's nest to get down without the rawhide rope, he had to stay in the nest with the baby eagles. When the mother eagle first saw the boy in her nest, she became very frightened for her young, but gradually she began to like the young boy. The mother eagle brought her babies water and later she brought them rabbits to eat. The boy dressed the rabbits and cut the meat into strips and hung them on the branches of trees to dry. He gave the intestines to the baby eagles. After the meat had dried, the boy pounded the meat and ate it. Soon the time came when the baby eagles grew to maturity. They told the boy that they would soon |