Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


"Me, I am Ai-kut, the first man of the Nishinam. Ai-kut is the short
for Adam, and my father and my mother were the coyote and the moon.
And this is Yo-to-to-wi, my wife. She is the first woman of the
Nishinam. Her father and her mother were the grasshopper and the ring-
tailed cat. They were the best father and mother left after my father
and mother. The coyote is very wise, the moon is very old; but who
ever heard much of anything of credit to the grasshopper and the ring-
tailed cat? The Nishinam are always right. The mother of all women had
to be a cat, a little, wizened, sad-faced, shrewd ring-tailed cat."

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