<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</SPAN></span></p>
<h2>ORIGIN OF STRAWBERRIES</h2>
<p class="subtitle">Cherokee</p>
<p><span class="dropcap">W</span>hen the world was new, there was one man
and one woman. They were happy; then
they quarreled. At last the woman left the
man and began to walk away toward the Sunland,
the Eastland. The man followed. He felt sorry, but
the woman walked straight on. She did not look back.</p>
<p>Then Sun, the great Apportioner, was sorry for the
man. He said,</p>
<p>“Are you still angry with your wife?”</p>
<p>The man said, “No.”</p>
<p>Sun said, “Would you like to have her come back
to you?”</p>
<p>“Yes,” said the man.</p>
<p>So Sun made a great patch of huckleberries which
he placed in front of the woman’s trail. She passed
them without paying any attention to them. Then Sun
made a clump of blackberry bushes and put those in
front of her trail. The woman walked on. Then Sun
created beautiful service-berry bushes which stood
beside the trail. Still the woman walked on.</p>
<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</SPAN></span>
So Sun made other fruits and berries. But the
woman did not look at them.</p>
<p>Then Sun created a patch of beautiful ripe strawberries.
They were the first strawberries. When the
woman saw those, she stopped to gather a few. As
she gathered them, she turned her face toward the west.
Then she remembered the man. She turned to the
Sunland but could not go on. She could not go any
further.</p>
<p>Then the woman picked some of the strawberries and
started back on her trail, away from the Sunland. So
her husband met her, and they went back together.</p>
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