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talons, but the Owl did not notice it. He then took hold of his eye- 

 brows and lifted his eyelids, but the Owl did not notice anything. 

 He then took hold of the whiskers of the Owl and pulled out a few 

 hairs, whereupon the Owl got awake, saying, "Ishana! Why do you 

 do that way to me?" "We wanted to go hunting," the Eagle re- 

 plied, "and now you are sleeping. You get up and we shall go 

 hunting." 



The Owl was willing and so the two went out. The Eagle took 

 hold of the Owl so that the latter should not go to sleep again. 

 They went into the valley east of Oraibi to hunt. Here they found 

 a party of Oraibi who were also hunting, and who were following a 

 rabbit. The Eagle, seeing the rabbit, swooped down on it and carried 

 it to the top of the bluflf close by. The Oraibi, seeing it, very were 

 angry. The Eagle then returned and hunted for his friend, the Owl, 

 and after searching for him for some time found him sitting at the 

 edge of a steep bank of the wash, sleeping. He said to the Owl, 

 "Why are you sleeping here again; they will certainly kill you." But 

 the Owl did not hear anything. 



Then two Oraibi boys from the hunting party came near and one 

 said to the other, "Listen! somebody is talking to some one here;" 

 whereupon they saw an Eagle flying up and an Owl sitting at the rim 

 of the bank, sleeping. The boys had bows and arrows and one of 

 them put an arrow on his bow, aimed, and shot the Owl through the 

 head, so that the bird tumbled down into the wash. The Eagle, who 

 was flying around above them, was angry and said, "There he was 

 sleeping, and now this happened to him." The two boys carried the 

 Owl home, the other hunters also going home, and the Eagle then 

 lived in his house all alone. 



96. THE BEE AND THE ASYA.» 



Halfksai! At Potatulcaovi lived the Bee, and at M6ngwupcovi 

 lived the Asya (a species of bird). They were both women and both 

 had children. They were great friends with each other. The Asya 

 one time was walking around in the peach orchard north of her house 

 and was eating peaches, which she relished very much. One time 

 she was visiting her friend, the Bee, and the latter fed her honey, of 

 which she ate. After she was through eating they conversed together 

 all day. In the evening the Asya returned to her house, inviting her 

 friend, however, to come and visit her too in the morning, which the 

 Bee promised to do. The next morning the Bee went over to her 



1 Told by Kw4yeshva (Oraibi). 



