According to one version the Bullfrog was always ridiculing the great gambler \u00db\u00f1tsai’y\u00ef, (Brass) until the latter at last got angry and dared the Bullfrog to play the gatay\u00fb’st\u00ef (wheel-and-stick) game with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whichever lost was to be scratched on his forehead. Brass won, as he always did, and the yellow stripes on the Bullfrog’s head show where the gambler’s fingers scratched him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another story is that the Bullfrog had a conjurer to paint his head with yellow stripes (brass) to make him appear more handsome to a pretty woman he was courting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to one version the Bullfrog was always ridiculing the great gambler \u00db\u00f1tsai’y\u00ef, (Brass) until the latter at last got angry and dared the Bullfrog to play the gatay\u00fb’st\u00ef (wheel-and-stick) game with him. Whichever lost was to be scratched on his forehead. Brass won, as he always did, and the yellow stripes on the Bullfrog’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,332],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherokee","category-cherokee-stories","tag-cherokee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Go Back To:\u00a0Cherokee<\/a> Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"