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one of the cups, but the ball was not under it. Hereupon he threw 

 down another one, but the ball was not under that one. "Now, that 

 is enough," Spider Woman said, "you have not found it." So she 

 put up her four cups again, the Mole again fastened the ball in one 

 of the cups quickly, closing up the opening in the floor, and then 

 Hasohkata was again challenged to guess. He again threw down 

 two cups without winning one game. "My!" he said, "Who are 

 you ? Why are you trying to keep away your things from me ? You 

 have beaten me, so take the young man along." Spider Woman then 

 herself threw down one of her cups and said, "Here under this one 

 is the ball." This made the old man somewhat angry and he 

 refused to let his captive go, but he challenged them to another trial. 

 Outside of his kiva grew very strong kwmgwi, which is a brush, the 

 sticks of which are very hard. He told them that if they would 

 break down or pull out a certain amount of that stuff he would con- 

 sider himself beaten. The Mole hearing this, quickly made its way 

 underground to the brush and soon gnawed off all the biggest 

 roots of a great deal of brush. The others did not know anything 

 about this and so when they came out of the kiva the old woman 

 said to the others: "Now, let us try to pull this out and see whether 

 we can do it. " They commenced, and in a short time had pulled out 

 so much, even with parts of the roots, that Hasohkata considered 

 himself beaten even before they had pulled out all that the Mole had 

 loosened. "All right," he said, "you take with you all that I have 

 and you will be rich, you have beaten me." They returned to the 

 kiva, untied the young man and all again entered the kiva of Hasoh- 

 kata. "Now," Hasohkata said to them, "take with you all of my 

 things here, because you have beaten me twice." There were a 

 great many objects throughout his kiva, such as clothing, bows, 

 quivers, arrows, and other things that he had taken away from 

 visitors with whom he had gambled and whom he had killed, throw- 

 ing their corpses into a big hole that was full of bones. 



After they had taken everything, they said to him: "But what 

 shall we do to you ? " He replied : "You have taken all my things, let 

 me alone." To this they did not agree. "We are going to kill 

 you," they said. "So the Bear grabbed him, tore open his breast, 

 and tore out the heart of Hasohkata, which he took with him. The 

 Wolves, Coyotes, Wildcats, etc., hereupon fell upon the corpse, tear- 

 ing it to pieces and devoured it. These animals still do the same 

 to-day, killing people whenever they have an opportunity to do so, 

 whether these people are good or bad, and that is the reason why 

 the Hopi hunt and kill those animals if they can do so. 



