So he put water into it and then meat into it, and put the pot
over the fire. Thus the people had boiled meat to eat.

Now their grass coverings would grow fuzzy and drop off. It was hard
to gather and keep these coverings. The people were not satisfied.
Again they thought, "What can we do to have something different to
wear?"

Before this, they had been throwing away the hides from the game which
they killed. But now they took their stone knives to scrape down the
hides and make them thin. They rubbed the hides with grass and with
their hands to make them soft. Then they used the hides for clothing.
Now they had clothing and were warm.

Now the women had to break the dry wood to keep up the fires. They had
no tools. So the men made a stone ax with a groove. Then they put a
handle on the grooved stone and fastened it with rawhide. This was
used. Then they wanted something better to break the wood. So they
made wedges of stone.

Now the grass shelter came to pieces easily. Then the people thought,
"What shall we do? How can we get something that will not come to
pieces?" Then they tried putting skins on poles.

First they tried deerskins. But they were too small. They tried elk
skins. But they became hard and stiff in the rain and sun. Then they
did not try skins longer. They used bark to cover the poles of their
tepees.

But the bark houses were not warm. Then the people took the leg bone
of the deer and splintered it So they made sharp pieces for awls. Then
they took buffalo skins and sinews, and with the awl they fastened the
skins together. So they made comfortable covers for their tepees.

Then a man wandered around a long time. One day he found some small
pieces of something which were white, and red, and blue. He thought
they must be something of great value, so he hid them in a mound of
earth. Now one day he went to see if they were safe. Behold! When he
came to the mound, green stalks were growing out of it. And on the
stalks were small kernels of white, and red, and blue. Behold! It was
corn. Then the man took the corn, and gave it to the people. They
tried it for food. They found it good, and have ever since called it
their life.

Now when the people found the corn good, they thought to hide it in
mounds as the first man had done. So they took the shoulder blade of
an elk and made mounds. Then they hid the corn in it. So the corn grew
and the people had food.

Now as the people wandered around, th