The Indian names contained in them are in the Ottawa or "Courte-Oreilles" language, but the same tales are current in all the different tongues and dialects.
* * * * * STORY OF THE RED FOX.
This is an animal to which many peculiarities are attributed.

He is said to resemble the jackal in his habit of molesting the graves of the dead, and the Indians have a superstitious dread of hearing his bark at night, believing that it forebodes calamity and death.

They say, too, that he was originally of one uniform reddish-brown color, but that his legs became black in the manner related in the story.
There was a chief of a certain village who had a beautiful daughter.

He resolved upon one occasion to make a feast and invite all the animals.
When the invitation was brought to the red fox, he inquired, "What are you going to have for supper ?" "_Mee-dau-mee-nau-bo_," was the reply.

(This is a porridge made of parched corn, slightly cracked.) The fox turned up his little sharp nose.