Apache Myth by Arne'

One day there was an old chief. He told the children an old story on a cold, windy night:

A long time ago the sky was very low and everything, the trees and the teepees were crooked. But the most unfortunate thing was that the parents were bent over too.

The kids were getting tired of the parents being bent and they made a plan to poke the clouds with sticks. Poke. Poke. The children didn't think it was going to work,because the sticks were too short.  A little boy said, "Oh, no! It's not working!"

Then another kid got an idea and the idea was to shoot the sky with arrows. But it failed. The clouds only got very angry and rained down on the children. How hard do you think the rain was pelting down on them? The boy that had the idea said, "I really thought that this was going to work."

Finally they had a great thought, when they took all the sticks and combined them to a long stick. Creak, creak - the sticks were moaning and creaking. "Yes, it works!" they shouted and they raised the clouds.

The children made it and the grown ups could stand up. The children cheered, "Yeah!" The grown ups said, "What a success!"

By Arne’