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think." "Why, what can be in there?" the Uttle brother finally said; 

 "it is perhaps a little turtle." "Now, you are surely our grand- 

 children," the grandfather exclaimed. 



"Well now, you kill me," the grandfather said. "No, we do not 

 want to kill you," the children replied, "but you pay us something.". 

 "Very well," the grandfather said, "what do you want?" "I want 

 a shirt, a bow, and quiver with arrows, and some wrist protectors, and 

 a pair of moccasins," the boy said. The little girl asked for a dress, 

 a blanket, moccasins, and a belt. And thus the grandparents paid 

 them these things. They then also asked for some clothes for their 

 mothers, whereupon the grandfather gave them four sheep-wool 

 dresses, two pairs of moccasins, and two belts. The children then 

 said , that their mothers had said , if they were willing and would not 

 say anything, then the mothers would also come. "Certainly you 

 must come," the grandparents said; "you shall not remain there." 

 So the children took these things with them and returned to their 

 mothers. 



When they arrived there the latter were very happy. The little 

 boy was already shooting his arrow. They all dressed up now and ate 

 their evening meal. Hereupon they proceeded to the village, but all 

 abreast. In this same manner they ascended the ladder, and when 

 they had arrived at the opening the elder woman called down, "Our 

 father, our mother," but received no answer. The younger sister 

 then called down the same words, but received no answer. "They 

 do not care for us," they said. The children had told their grand- 

 parents that their mothers would come if the grandparents would not 

 say anything to them. They then descended the ladder and stopped 

 at the elevated portion in the kiva. Again the two called, "Our 

 father, our mother," and again no answer. "They do not care for 

 us," the two women said. They then descended into the deeper por- 

 tion of the kiva and again one after the other called, "Our father, our 

 mother," whereupon the grandmother responded. "How!" she said, 

 and immediately her two children and two grandchildren fell dead. 

 Had they heeded the injunction a little better, and had been quiet 

 just once more, the fourth time they would all have lived together 

 happily, but this way now they had no children. 



40. HOW HIYONATITIWA DEFEATED THE PLAN OF HIS ENEMIES.* 



Haliksai! In Oraibi they were living. At the place where now 

 Hongsi and Ndkwsu live, lived a maiden who refused all offers of 

 marriage. The young men of the village would frequently go there 



' Told by Lomdnomtiwa (Oraibi). 



