imb out and watch to see where they come
from; then I shall grab them when I hit the water next time.'

"He did that; but he couldn't tell where the berries came from. As
soon as the water settled and became smooth--there were the
berries--the same as before. Ho!--OLD-man was wild; he was angry, I
tell you. And in he went flat on his stomach! He made an awful splash
and mussed the water greatly; but there were no berries.

"'I know what I shall do. I will stay right here and wait for those
berries; that is what I shall do'; and he did.

"He thought maybe somebody was looking at him and would laugh, so he
glanced along the bank. And there, right over the water, he saw the
same bunch of berries on some tall bushes. Don't you see? OLD-man
saw the shadow of the berry-bunch; not the berries. He saw the red
shadow-berries on the water; that was all, and he was such a fool he
didn't know they were not real.

"Well, now he was angry in truth. Now he was ready for war. He
climbed out on the bank again and cut a club. Then he went at the
buffalo-berry bushes and pounded them till all of the red berries fell
upon the ground--till the branches were bare of berries.

"'There,' he said, 'that's what you get for making a fool of the man
who made you. You shall be beaten every year as long as you live, to
pay for what you have done; you and your children, too.'

"That is how it all came about, and that is why your mothers whip the
buffalo-berry bushes and then pick the berries from the ground. Ho!"

OLD-MAN AND THE FOX

I am sure that the plains Indian never made nor used the stone
arrow-head. I have heard white men say that they had seen Indians use
them; but I have never found an Indian that ever used them himself, or
knew of their having been used by his people. Thirty years ago I knew
Indians, intimately, who were nearly a hundred years old, who told me
that the stone arrow-head had never been in use in their day, nor had
their fathers used them in their own time. Indians find these
arrow-points just as they find the stone mauls and hammers, which I
have seen them use thousands of times, but they do not make them any
more than they make the stone mauls and hammers. In the old days, both
the head of the lance and the point of the arrow were of bone; even
knives were of bone, but some other people surely made the arrow-points
that are scattered throughout the United States and Europe, I am told.

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