<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</SPAN></span></p>
<h2>THE EAGLE’S REVENGE</h2>
<p class="subtitle">Cherokee</p>
<p><span class="dropcap">O</span>nce a hunter in the mountains heard a noise
at night like a rushing wind. He went outside
his tepee, and found an eagle was sitting
on the drying pole, feasting at the deer he had shot.
So he shot the eagle.</p>
<p>The next morning the hunter took the deer back to
the village. He told how he had shot the deer and
then the eagle. Therefore the chief sent out men to
bring in the eagle, and have an Eagle dance.</p>
<p>That night when they were dancing, there was a
<i>whoop</i> outside. A strange warrior walked into the
circle. He was not of that village. They thought he
had come from one of the other Cherokee villages.</p>
<p>This warrior told how he had killed a man. At the
end of the story, he yelled, “<i>Hi!</i>” One of the men
with rattles, who was leading the dance, fell dead.
The stranger sang of another deed. At the end he
yelled, “<i>Hi!</i>” Another rattler fell dead. The people
were frightened. But the stranger sang of another
great deed. Then again he yelled, “<i>Hi!</i>” Again a
<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</SPAN></span>
man with the rattles fell dead. So all seven men who
had rattles and who were leading the dance fell dead.
And the people were too frightened to leave the lodge
where they were dancing.</p>
<p>Then the stranger vanished into the darkness. Long
after they learned that the stranger was the brother of
the eagle that had been killed.</p>
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