WHY THE TETONS BURY ON SCAFFOLDS

_Teton_

In the olden days, the people buried some men on a hill. Then they

removed their camp to another place. Many winters afterwards, a man

visited the hill; but there were no graves there. So he told the

people.

Then many men came and dug far down into the hill. By and by a man

said, "There is a road here."

There they found a road, a tunnel, large enough for men to walk,

stooping. Other roads there were. They followed the first road and

they came to a place where a strange animal had dragged the bodies of

those who were buried in the hill.

Therefore the people refused to bury their dead in the ground. They

bury them on scaffolds where the animals cannot reach them.[M]

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