A long time ago a man had a dog, and they went down to the river everyday to howl and look at the water. One time, the man got very angry and yelled at his dog and the dog then spoke back to him and told him that there will be a flood one day that will drown everybody but if you make a raft you will be saved but you have to throw me in the water first. The man could not believe his dog was talking to him. The dog told him that if he did not believe him, he should look at his neck to see the skin was worn off and the bones stuck out.
The man believed the dog and began to build a raft. The flood did come and the man took his family on his raft. It rained for so long that the water covered the mountains and everybody drowned. Once the rain subsided, the only people still alive was the man and his family. He looked over to the other side of a bridge and saw piles of bones ad knew that the people ghost's had been dancing.
The Deluge by James Mooney
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