BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
HOW GRIZZLY BEAR AND COYOTE MADE
LIGHT AND THE SEASONS
Shuswap
ONE day Grizzly Bear met Coyote and said to him, "I am great in magic, greater than all of the people. When I wish a thing to be so, it has to be so. Now, I do not like having it dark so short a time. I intended to make it dark all the time."
Coyote said, "Oh, no! That would inconvenience the people too much."
Grizzly Bear said, "I intend to have it my way."
Coyote said, "No, you can't!"
At once Grizzly Bear began to dance, singing,
Darkness! darkness! darkness! Let it always be dark!
That was his song.
Coyote also danced and sang,
Light! light! light! light! Let it always be light!
Thus Coyote sang.
They danced and sang a long, long time. Sometimes it was dark, when Grizzly sang loudest, and some-
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