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SPIRIT
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The Fast Runners - Blackfoot
Once, long ago, the antelope and
the deer met on the prairie. At this time both of them had galls
and both dew claws. They began to talk together, and each was
telling the other what he could do. Each one told how fast he
could run, and before long they were disputing as to which could
run the faster. Neither would allow that the other could beat
him, so they agreed that they would have a race to decide which
was the swifter, and they bet their galls on the race. When
they ran, the antelope proved the faster runner, and beat the
deer and took his gall.
Then the deer said: "Yes, you
have beaten me on the prairie, but that is not where I live.
I only go out there sometimes to feed, or when I am traveling
around. We ought to have another race in the timber. That is
my home, and there I can run faster than you can."
The antelope felt very big because
he had beaten the deer in the race, and he thought wherever
they might be, he could run faster than the deer. So he agreed
to race in the timber, and on this race they bet their dew claws.
They ran through the thick timber, among the brush and over
fallen logs, and this time the antelope ran slowly, because
he was not used to this kind of traveling, and the deer easily
beat him, and took his dew claws.
Since then the deer has had no gall,
and the antelope no dew claws.
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