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they gave him four days to mourn. They went home and the Frog- 

 went out mourning. He neither ate nor drank. When the four 

 days were past the Frog came back. He chose one man to louse 

 him, and two men to give him something to eat. They decided to 

 go the next morning hunting for scalps. 



The next morning the man mourning called his men. He 

 hallooed all the time. They came in, one at a time, but the head man 

 was very slow. He called him. He told one of the boys to go and 

 get him. So the boy went, and before he came back the Frog 

 heard the head man coming. The Frog was right by a tree. Light- 

 ning struck the tree where the mourning man was, so the Frog 

 jumped in the creek. 



15. — The Mountain-Lion and the Four Sisters. 



Once there were four sisters living together, and one of them 

 was doing the cooking. One was making straw mats to be used in 

 the camp, and one was making small mats — such as were used in 

 the feasts. 



One time the cook went after water and she found a skunk. The 

 next time she went she saw a raccoon, and the next time, she saw a 

 deer. She said to her sister, "I see some kind of roe." Another .one 

 said, "It is a deer, let us butcher it." The next time stye saw a 

 Mountain-Lion that had a turkey which it had killed, and she told 

 her sister that this turkey had been killed by this animal. So the 

 other said, "Let us move away from here." 



They started away, and the deer's horns they left in the fire. 

 After they had moved, this Mountain-Lion came to the camp and 

 said to himself, "I ought to have caught them long ago." So he 

 started on their trail and when he had gone a little way, the deer 

 horns cried out, "Where are you going, you man-eater?" So the 

 Mountain-Lion turned back, and nobody was there. So he started 

 after these women again, but one of the women stamped her foot on 

 the ground and there appeared some apples. When the Mountain- 

 Lion came to the apples he fell to eating them, then he started to 

 trail the women again. One of the women did as before and made 

 some apples. When the Mountain-Lion came to them he fell to 

 eating them, then he went on, and when he got close to them again 

 one of the girls stamped her foot and made a big ravine so that the 

 Mountain-Lion could not cross. Then the Mountain-Lion asked 

 the girls how they got across the ravine. The girls had a little 

 stick and they told the Mountain-Lion that they had laid the stick 



