So the man on the warpath took as
many horses as he pleased.

HOW RABBIT ESCAPED FROM THE WOLVES

_Cherokee_

Once upon a time, Wolves caught Rabbit. They were going to eat him,
but Rabbit said he would show them a new dance. Now the Wolves knew
that Rabbit was a good dancer, so they made a ring around him.

Rabbit pattered with his feet and began to dance around in a circle,
singing,

On the edge of the field I dance about,
_Ha' nia lil! lil! Ha' nia lil! lil!_

Then the Rabbit stopped a minute. He said, "Now when I sing 'on the
edge of the field,' I dance that way"--and he danced over in that
direction; "and when I sing '_lil! lil!_' you must all stamp your feet
hard."

The Wolves liked that. They liked new dances.

Rabbit began singing the same song, dancing nearer to the field, while
all the Wolves stamped their feet. He sang the song again, dancing
still nearer the edge of the field. The fourth time he sang it, while
the Wolves were stamping their feet as hard as they could. Rabbit made
one jump off and leaped through the long grass. The Wolves raced after
him, but Rabbit ran for a hollow stump and climbed inside. When the
Wolves got there, one of them put his head inside, but Rabbit hit him
on the eye and he pulled his head out. The others were afraid to try,
so they went away and left Rabbit in the stump.

[Illustration: PLAINS INDIANS DRAGGING BRUSH FOR A MEDICINE LODGE

_By permission of Sumner W. Matteson, the photographer_]

[Illustration: AN EARTH LODGE

_Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution_]

HOW RABBIT LOST HIS FAT

_Omaha_

At first all the four-footed animals were fat. The one who made them
wished to know if they looked well so fat. So he called all the
four-footed animals together. He seized by the head each one who did
not look handsome with the fat, and scraped it all off.

At length someone took Rabbit to him.

"Fat makes me handsome," said Rabbit "I will be the one."

"Let me see! Come here!" said the one who made the animals. Then he
made Rabbit fat. Then he looked at him. "Fat makes you ugly beyond
measure."

So he seized Rabbit by the head and scraped off the fat from the base
of his neck. But he pulled suddenly at the flesh in the space between
the shoulders. Therefore, ever since then Rabbit has had a hollow
space between his shoulders, and only in that place is there a piece
of fat.

At length the person who made the animals saw t