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Long ago,
Bluebird's feathers were the colour of dust. She did not like her ugly colour.
She was attracted by the colour of the lake near her home. It was as
blue as the sky after a storm. Bluebird wanted to be the colour of that
beautiful lake very much. Flapping her wings one morning, Bluebird flew from
her tree to the blue lake. Then she bathed in the water three times. After each
bath, she sang, "Blue water. Still water. I went in. I am blue." Bluebird repeated this every morning. On the
third day, she came out of the lake with beautiful blue feathers.
Now Coyote was a trickster(骗子)—and hungry too. He stayed behind Bluebird's tree for a long time
every day and watched her go to the lake. He pretended(伪装)to be interested in everything she did. He wanted Bluebird for lunch, but he was afraid of the blue water. On the
third morning, Coyote saw Bluebird come out of the lake with beautiful
blue feathers. Impressed, he sat next to Bluebird's tree and waited for her.
When she returned, he asked, "How did you get blue feathers? I want to be blue
like the mountains too." Bluebird didn't believe Coyote, but she taught him
how to bathe three times each morning and how to sing her song. Coyote did what
she said, and after three days of bathing in the lake, his white fur turned
deep blue.
Convinced(确信的)that blue fur was even
more beautiful than blue feathers, Coyote forgot all about being hungry. He ran
as fast as he could to the top of the hill. Standing on his back legs, he
raised his front legs off the ground and
howled. But Coyote slipped(滑倒)and rolled down the hill. He couldn't stop himself, and the dust and dirt covered his new blue fur. He rolled
and rolled until he hit into Bluebird's tree heavily. No matter how much he
tried, foolish Coyote could not shake the dust from his fur. And so the fur of
all coyotes had the dull colour of dust to this very day.