KS OF DAYLIGHT 90

XXIV. THE RED BEAR 95

XXV. THE LAST OF THE THUNDERBIRDS 99

XXVI. RAVEN MAKES AN OCEAN VOYAGE 103

XXVII. THE RED SKELETON 108

XXVIII. THE MARMOT AND THE RAVEN 111

XXIX. ORIGIN OF THE WINDS 114

XXX. RAVEN AND THE GEESE 120

XXXI. EVEN A GRASS PLANT CAN BECOME
SOMEONE IF IT TRIES 127

ILLUSTRATIONS

He summoned his mascot which was a huge
white bear (7) _Frontispiece_

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He lifted the boulder as if it had been a pebble 39

He whipped on his magic coat and became a raven 93

A gale swept in bringing reindeer, trees and bushes 117

I

THE BABY ESKIMO

The little Eskimo away up in the northern part of British America has
a pretty hard time of it, as you may know when you think how cold it
is there.

He is born in a snow hut, and when he is but a few hours old he is
carried on his mother's back out upon the ice, and around and around
in circles and after a while through deep snow back to the hut. If
that does not kill him, the names he gets are enough to do it; for he
is given the names of all the people who have died in the village
since the last baby was born. He sometimes has a string of names long
enough to weigh any baby down. Worse than that, if one of his
relatives dies before he is four years old, that name is added to the
rest and is the one by which he is called.

Worse still, if he falls sick he is given a dog's name, so that the
goddess Sedna will look kindly upon him. Then, all his life, he must
wear a dog's harness over his inner jacket. If he should die, his
mother must rush out of the house with him at once. If she does not do
so, everything in the house must be thrown away or destroyed, just as
is done when a grown person dies in a furnished house.

For a whole year his mother must wear a cap if she steps outside her
door, and she must carry his boots about with her. After three days
she goes to his tomb and walks around it three times, going around to
the left, because that is the way the sun