Once, before there were any people in the world, the different animals and trees lived and moved about and talked together just like human beings.The pine trees had the secret of fire and guarded it jealously, so that no matter how cold it was, they alone could warm themselves.At length an unusually cold winter came, …

Once there was a little boy. He was an orphan. This boy cried day and night and would never be quiet. His grandmother asked him one day, "What makes you cry?"He said, "I cry because I want a wife."Now his grandparents knew of a girl who lived toward the East and they sent him there.As …

One day, long before there were any people on the Earth, a monster came down from the North. He was a huge monster and he ate everything in sight. He ate all the little animals, the chipmunks and the raccoons and the mice, and all the big animals. He ate the deer and the elk …