Native American Legends
Dance in a Buffalo Skull
An American Indian Legend - Nation Unknown
It was night upon the prairie. Overhead the stars were twinkling
bright their red and yellow lights. The moon was young. A silvery
thread among the stars, it soon drifted low beneath the horizon.
Upon the ground the land was pitchy black. There are night people
on the plain who love the dark. Amid the black level land they meet
to frolic under the stars. Then when their sharp ears hear any strange
footfalls nigh they scamper away into the deep shadows of night.
There they are safely hid from all dangers, they think.
Thus it was that one very black night, afar off from the edge of
the level land, out of the wooded river bottom glided forth two
balls of fire. They came farther and farther into the level land.
They grew larger and brighter. The dark hid the body of the creature
with those fiery eyes. They came on and on, just over the tops of
the prairie grass. It might have been a wildcat prowling low on
soft, stealthy feet. Slowly but surely the terrible eyes drew nearer
and nearer to the heart of the level land.
There in a huge old buffalo skull was a gay feast and dance! Tiny
little field mice were singing and dancing in a circle to the boom-boom
of a wee, wee drum. They were laughing and talking among themselves
while their chosen singers sang loud a merry tune.
They built a small open fire within the center of their queer dance
house. The light streamed out of the buffalo skull through all the
curious sockets and holes.
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