They were all so fast asleep that the rat was able to do this very easily.
All went just as they planned.

The snake took the fire and hid a little spark of it in every buckeye tree.

And there the Indians found it when they needed it.

For rubbing a piece of cedar and buckeye together, they very quickly make the spark, and produce fire.
A LEGEND OF LAKE TAHOE The following legend was published some years ago in _Sunset Magazine_.

It was written by Miss Nonette V.McGlashan, who heard it from a Washoe squaw.