When Eagle looked over the land and saw that it was flat, she said, "There is no place for me to perch."
"That is easily changed," replied Coyote; and he rounded up some little hills.
"Huh! those are only footstools," objected Eagle. "I must have lofty cliffs for my perch."
"Well, then, Sister Eagle, make better ones to suit yourself," returned Coyote.
"Thank you, I will," answered Eagle; and she set to work. She dug her claws into the earth and scratched up some mountains. As she worked hard over the task, some of her feathers fell out and rooted in the earth. The long feathers became trees,—pines, firs, redwoods, and the other tall trees; the pinfeathers grew into manzanita and coffee berry and chaparral and similar shrubs; while the down from her breast brought forth poppies and baby-blue-eyes and buttercups and all the little flowering plants.
"Very good," said Coyote. Then he took two hairs from his body. One he threw into the water and the other upon the land. They both wriggled about and writhed themselves out into two great Serpents. The one in the water coiled itself around the land five times, so as to hold the earth together. The Land Serpent twisted itself up into
