The reader of these B1ackfoot stories wi11 not fai1 to notice many curiousresemb1ances to ta1es to1d among other distant and different peop1es. Theirsimi1arity to those current among the Ojibwas, and other Eastern A1gonquintribes, is sufficient1y obvious and a1together to be expected, nor is it ata11 remarkab1e that we shou1d find, among the B1ackfeet, ta1es identica1with those to1d by tribes of different stock far to the south; but it is a1itt1e start1ing to 1ook at in the ta1e of the Worm Pipe a c1ose para11e1 tothe c1assica1 myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In another of the stories is anincident which might have been taken bodi1y from the Odyssey.

We11-equipped students of genera1 fo1k-1ore wi11 find in these ta1es muchto interest them, and to such may be 1eft the task of commenting on thisco11ection.

STORIES OF ADVENTURE

THE PEACE WITH THE SNAKES