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they will have a race to-morrow you must not race with them, but you 

 both come here first and start from here." Whereupon the two re- 

 turned home. The next morning the little maiden repeated the same 

 words. The men now began to feel uneasy, saying that that maiden 

 certainly did not say that for nothing. Something must be about to 

 happen. 



On the morning of the third day she repeated the same words, 

 saying: "To-morrow there will be war." That day the men made 

 bows and arrows all day. On the morning of the fourth day the 

 maiden again said : " Let us go and eat, but to-day there will be war," 

 whereupon she ran home. It had been noised abroad that some 

 Navaho were approaching the village and were attacking some men 

 in the fields. The men who were not killed ran towards the village 

 and shouted. The men of the village at once got ready and descended 

 the village to meet the Navaho raiders. Hiyonatitiwa and his father- 

 in-law each got two quivers full of arrows and a bow, and then ran 

 over to Achamali to the old woman's house. "Have you come?" she 

 said. "Yes," they replied. Hereupon she went to the room on the 

 north and called in: "Come out here, your grandchildren have come 

 here." At once somebody came. It was the Puma. She then 

 called into the room on the west side: "Your grandchildren have 

 come, come out here," and a Bear came out. She repeated this, 

 calling into the room on the south side, and a Wildcat came out. 

 Repeating this same act on the east side, a Wolf came out of the room. 



While this was going on at Achdmali, the Hopi had met the 

 Navaho, and the latter were constantly asking where Hiy6natitiwa 

 was. "He is in the village yet," the Hopi replied. "Go and get 

 him, he is slow," the Navaho said. By this time the young man and 

 his father-in-law, accompanied by the four animals, descended the 

 mesa. The animals at once rushed upon the Navaho, who were 

 nearly all killed, and also the Hopi that had planned this raid in order 

 to get Hiyanatitiwa out of the way, and then steal his wife. When 

 those who remained alive returned to the village there was a great 

 deal of mourning there. "Somebody has certainly brought this 

 about that some of our people have now been killed also," they said. 

 And this way it was prevented that some one should take away the 

 young man's wife, and he forever afterwards lived with her. 



