, for
you are great in war.'

"'I am Bad Sickness,' replied the Person. 'Tribes I have met remember
me and always will, for their bravest warriors are afraid when I make
war upon them. I come in the night or I visit their camps in daylight.
It is always the same; they are frightened and I kill them easily.'

"'Ho!' said OLD-man, 'tell me how to make Bad Sickness, for I often go
to war myself.' He lied; for he was never in a battle in his life. The
Person shook his ugly head and then OLD-man said:

"'If you will tell me how to make Bad Sickness I will make you small
and handsome. When you are big, as you now are, it is very hard to
make a living; but when you are small, little food will make you fat.
Your living will be easy because I will make your food grow everywhere.'

"'Good,' said the Person, 'I will do it; you must kill the fawns of the
deer and the calves of the elk when they first begin to live. When you
have killed enough of them you must make a robe of their skins.
Whenever you wear that robe and sing--"now you sicken, now you sicken,"
the sickness will come--that is all there is to it.'

"'Good,' said OLD-man, 'now lie down to sleep and I will do as I
promised.'

"The Person went to sleep and OLD-man breathed upon him until he grew
so tiny that he laughed to see how small he had made him. Then he took
out his paint sack and striped the Person's back with black and yellow.
It looked bright and handsome and he waked the Person, who was now a
tiny animal with a bushy tail to make him pretty.

"'Now,' said OLD-man, 'you are the Chipmunk, and must always wear those
striped clothes. All of your children and their children, must wear
them, too.'

"After the Chipmunk had looked at himself, and thanked OLD-man for his
new clothes, he wanted to know how he could make his living, and
OLD-man told him what to eat, and said he must cache the pine-nuts when
the leaves turned yellow, so he would not have to work in the winter
time.

"'You are a cousin to the Pine-squirrel,' said OLD-man, 'and you will
hunt and hide as he does. You will be spry and your living will be
easy to make if you do as I have told you.'

"He taught the Chipmunk his language and his signs, showed him where to
live, and then left him, going on toward the north again. He kept
looking for the cow-elk and doe-deer, and it was not long before he had
killed enough of their young to make the robe as the Person told him,
for they were pl