Fox took some grass stalks and went to the tree where Eagle nested.
"Throw down an egg," Fox shouted. "Or else I'll knock the tree with this grass!" Then Fox waved the grass stalks menacingly.
The frightened Eagle threw Fox an egg, and he ate it.
"Give me another!"
Eagle threw down another egg.
"Another!"
"No!" groaned Eagle.
"If you don't, I'll knock the tree down and take them all."
So Eagle threw Fox another egg, which he ate.
"You are such a fool, Eagle! Did you really think grass could knock down a tree?"
Fox then ran away, laughing.
Inspired by: Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).
Notes: You can read about the Koryak people of the Russian Far East at Wikipedia. They also inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea, which is why their stories appear in Judson's book of Alaska tales. In the original story, Eagle then gets angry, snatches Fox, and drops him on a deserted island.
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