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on my house." It was Spider Woman. She invited him into her 

 house, but he said: "The opening is So small, how shall I get in?" 

 She removed the small sticks and pieces of grass that were built up 

 around the opening, thus enlarging che opening so that he'could enter. 

 "Now," she said to him, "you must be very hungry. It is too bad 

 that those Eagles which you treated so well should have been so 

 bad to you. You had better stay here and live with me now. " 

 Hereupon she gave him a tiny piece of meat, a very small quantity 

 of huriishuki (a kind of doughy mush), and half a nut, and invited him 

 to eat. "Oh!" bethought, "how shall I get satisfied with this small 

 quantity. I shall surely remain hungry," but when he took the 

 huriishuki, and placed it in his mouth, she said to him: "Oh, you 

 must not take it all, you must just take a small quantity, and you 

 must only suck the meat. " He did so and when he began to eat it, 

 it increased in his mouth, filling his mouth entirely. The same was 

 true of the nut, and the meat, the latter being white meat of some 

 kind of a fowl, as the old woman explained to him upon his request. 

 After he had eaten, Spider Woman made a ball for him of pitch and 

 hair, the same as the Hopi use to-day in their races in early spring. 

 In the morning he took that ball, left the house and ran southward, 

 kicking the ball before him as the Hopi do at the present day. Arriv- 

 ing at a small lake he saw at its banks some little birds, and having 

 learned that Spider Woman relished that kind of meat very much, 

 he killed one of the birds and took it along. On his way back he 

 again kicked the ball before him, and at the last kick it dropped down 

 into the Spider Woman's house, by which she knew that he had 

 returned. "Thanks, that you have come back." She expressed 

 her satisfaction at him having brought some more meat, and said : 

 "Now, you must put this away and we tnust not eat very much of 

 it at a time, so that it may last us several months. " The young man 

 laughed at her, saying, "Yes, I will be nibbling at it for a long time. " 

 She told him that the meat which she had had before, she had found, 

 the bird evidently having been killed by some other bird, and she 

 had lived upon that bird for a long time. 



The next day he went out again, bringing home this time two 

 birds that he had killed. She thanked him very much again, say- 

 ing, that now they could eat all they wanted. She then warned him 

 that he should never go towards the west, as there were some bad 

 people living there that would hurt him. The third day he again 

 went to the lake, taking with him this time a throwing stick. When 

 he arrived there he killed a large number of birds and brought them 

 back with him. On this trip he again kept kicking the ball before 



