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back with her. She did so, and the man married the girl. This man 

 told his wife to go around the camp and pick up the refuse and even 

 the old pieces of blankets. They both dug a big hole in the ground. 

 They put all these things in it. The man said, "I think we will have 

 hard wind." The hard wind came. It blew the acorn tree off the boy's 

 stomach. The boy was now all right. They uncovered the things 

 they had buried. They found blankets piled up high, all kinds of 

 clothing, and all kinds of food, and everything that can be mentioned. 



They started to build a lodge. They put all their things in this 

 lodge. The man told his brother-in-law to go up on the lodge to look 

 and see if anybody was coming. The boy saw four men coming. They 

 invited these four men into the lodge, and they gave them their dinner, 

 they gave them everything they could carry away, and then the four 

 men started back to the camp. When they got back to their camp they 

 told their friends that these people whom they visited were rich, and 

 that that night they should cry around the camp, saying, "The two 

 children you left now have all they want." 



Now, all returned to the village, and when they all got home the 

 father and mother and sisters went to the lodge of this boy and girl 

 and her husband and began crying around their lodge, but they would 

 not let them enter the lodge. After a while they opened the door and 

 let them in, and they saw their boy and daughter and her husband. So 

 the girl gave them blankets and corn and acorns, and of everything 

 they had. 



31. — The Boy, the Arrows and the Ducks. 



Once there were four men living together. The two oldest of them 

 were brothers. These two brothers had two arrows. The older brother 

 said, "Brothers, we are all poor, and must be good to the arrow." Then 

 he said to his younger brother : "You must not shoot any kind of birds, 

 nor use the arrow. If you do use the arrow the bird will carry it away 

 and then we shall be in trouble. Some bird from across the water will 

 come after the arrow." 



An Eagle came and lighted near by them on the tree. The youngest 

 boy disobeyed his brother and shot at the Eagle, but he did not hit it. 



When the boy's brother came back from hunting, he told him that 

 a nice pretty bird had come. He said he had got tired of it and that it 

 had flown away. The brother said to the boy, "I told you not to use 

 the arrow ; that if you should you would see hard days as time passed 

 on. 



