Prevod
Ko si je hudič prilastil pravico do lepih dežel severno od Long Island Sounda, so mu jo Indijanci oporekali in se pripravili, da bodo branili svoje domove, če bi jim skušal vročiti nalog za izselitev. Pogajanja niso obrodila sadov, zato je zlodej poskusil s silo, a so ga v odprtem boju porazili in zdelo se mu je pametno čim prej pobegniti s prizorišča. Umaknil se je čez Sound blizu začetka East Rivera. Bila je oseka, zato je brez težav stopal z otoka na otok, in tiste čeri in otoki se še danes imenujejo Hudičevi stopni kamni. Ko je prispel do Throgg's Necka, je obupano sedel in premleval svoj poraz, dokler ga ni misel nanj spravila v tak bes, da je sklenil obnoviti vojno pod pogoji, ki bi koristili samo njemu. V tistih časih v Connecticutu ni bilo skal, Long Island pa je bil z njimi prekrit; zato je zbral vse, kar jih je lahko dobil v roke, in jih metal v Indijance, ki jih je videl čez Sound pri Cold Springu, dokler mu jih ni zmanjkalo. Rdečekožci, ki so zadnji naseljevali Connecticut, so belcem kazali, kam so padli ti izstrelki in kje je hudič zaril peto v tla, ko se je v naglici, da bi dosegel Long Island, odgnal z obale. Pri Cold Springu kažejo še druge njegove stopinje in enega njegovih nožnih prstov. Nastanil se je v Coramu in dolga leta nadlegoval tamkajšnje prebivalce, tako da so bili med hudičem na zahodu in Montauki na vzhodu resnično hudo preizkušani; kajti čeprav so jih stražarji na Watch Hillu v Rhode Islandu in drugod pogosto opozorili na prihod Montaukov, nikoli niso vedeli, od kod se bo prikazal hudič.
Izvirnik
When the devil set a claim to the fair lands at the north of Long Island Sound, his claim was disputed by the Indians, who prepared to fight for their homes should he attempt to serve his writ of ejectment. Parley resulted in nothing, so the bad one tried force, but he was routed in open fight and found it desirable to get away from the scene of action as soon as possible. He retreated across the Sound near the head of East River. The tide was out, so he stepped from island to island, without trouble, and those reefs and islands are to this day the Devil's Stepping-Stones. On reaching Throgg's Neck he sat down in a despairing attitude and brooded on his defeat, until, roused to a frenzy at the thought of it, he resolved to renew the war on terms advantageous entirely to himself. In that day Connecticut was free from rocks, but Long Island was covered with them; so he gathered all he could lay his hands on and tossed them at the Indians that he could see across the Sound near Cold Spring until the supply had given out. The red men who last inhabited Connecticut used to show white men where the missiles landed and where the devil struck his heel into the ground as he sprang from the shore in his haste to reach Long Island. At Cold Spring other footprints and one of his toes are shown. Establishing himself at Coram, he troubled the people of the country for many years, so that between the devil on the west and the Montauks on the east they were plagued indeed; for though their guard at Watch Hill, Rhode Island, and other places often apprised them of the coming of the Montauks, they never knew which way to look for the devil.
