red, white, or blue, or any other tint but dirt color, and so they were content with their clothes.
Once as they glanced out over the water, they saw a great big thing shining in the sun. They all stopped to look at it. If they watched it from one point, it looked blue. If they walked down the beach, it shone green. If they walked up the sands, it glowed rosy. Whenever they looked at it from a different position, they saw some new hue.
"What lovely thing is this?" they cried. "Let us get a nearer view of it."
They launched their canoes and rowed towards it, but ever it seemed to move just as they did, and they never came nearer to it. As the sun sank in the water, they said: "We must go home now. The lovely thing can meet the darkness alone." As they turned, the great shining thing followed them. It always kept the same distance behind them.
They were frightened. Then Blue Jay said: "Let us shoot it to-morrow. Then we can have its colors." The other animals agreed, and they all went to their homes to sleep.
As the sun brought back light to the world, the animals saw the great thing throwing out its beautiful colors. They hurried for their bows and began aiming at it. They shot all day, but their
