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hanging on strings on. the wall not very high up. They piled up some 

 stones and loosened some of the corn-ears with a stick so that a good 

 deal of it fell down. This they ate and satisfied their hunger. They 

 intended to leave the next morning. "To-morrow we will follow 

 our parents," they said. So the next morning early they went to 

 their grandfather and said to him that they would now go. He 

 asked them whether they had any food to take with them. They 

 said: "Yes, we have wrapped up some of the corn that we have found 

 strung up and hanging on some of the walls and that we have thrown 

 down." He said: "You follow your parents, and I shall stand here 

 and keep looking after you so that nothing will happen to you. But 

 you take your knife and be not afraid, but cut a piece out of my 

 back. This you take with you and give it to the chiefs and tell them : 

 "This is a piece of meat from the Balolookong, and when at any time 

 it does not rain you make bahos and rub a little of this meat among 

 the paint with which you paint the b^hos, and it will certainly 

 rain." The children refused to cut out the piece of flesh, saying: 

 "That will hurt you very much." "No, no," he said, "be not 

 afraid." Finally they were willing, took the knife and cut out quite 

 a large piece of flesh. They found that the meat was very tender 

 and when they had cut out the piece the wound closed up immedi- 

 ately. 



So they started after their people. In the evening they were 

 very tired and slept all night. The next evening they were again 

 very tired and slept on a ridge that was covered with pine-trees. 

 The older brother carried his younger brother and also the food and 

 he was nearly exhausted. They were also very thirsty and hungry, 

 but they were so weak that they could hardly eat the hard corn. 

 On the third day at about noon they were nearly exhausted and were 

 very thirsty. They sat down under a pine-tree. Their food was 

 also all consumed. As soon as they had sat down they fell over and 

 fell asleep. 



C6tukvnangi,' the God of Thunder, lived in the sky and saw the 

 children and took pity on them. He concluded to descend and help 

 them. He took a gourd vessel full of water and some rolls of nuva- 

 muhpi (piki made of meal of fresh roasting ears) and then descended 

 to where the children were. They were sleeping, their mouths were 

 dry and parched. Soon the younger brother awoke and there some- 

 body was sitting by their side, somebody very terrible. The person- 

 age had three very long horns or projections on the head, two stand- 

 ing sideways, and one standing upward on top of the head. They 



' Usually called Cotukvnangwuu. 



