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son; they may reach you." The boy was afraid to swim, because of 

 the big fish. "Well, Brown-Duck, please stretch your legs across." 

 The Brown-Duck said, "I have done all I can for you." 



The next bird was a White-Duck, and the boy cried, and said, "I 

 wish you would stretch your legs across the water." The White-Duck 

 just barely reached across. The boy stopped crying, and said, "Big 

 Red-Duck, I wish you would be kind enough to stretch your legs and 

 reach me if you can." So the big Red-Duck stretched his legs and 

 reached across the water. So the boy walked on the Red-Duck's legs. 



The boy found thousands of birds, and all the birds were glad to 

 see him. They said : "Well, you have come, at last. Some said you 

 were not coming, some said you were. We have been trying to get 

 the arrow of your brother for a long time, and finally the big Red- 

 Duck got it." The birds said : "We cannot do for you anything good, 

 but we will do the best we can." So they all brought him blankets, 

 and they told him to fix the blankets so he could take them home to his 

 brothers. They twisted four blankets together in one bundle, and in 

 it they placed the arrow. 



The boy now started home. The big Red-Duck stretched his leg 

 across, and the boy walked across. After the boy got across he set out 

 for home. When his brothers saw him comjng they all said, "There 

 comes our brother." They asked him if he brought the arrow home^ 

 and he said he had. So they untied the bundle and there it was, with 

 the big pile of blankets. 



32. — The Boy and the Mountain-Lion. 



There was once a man by the name of "Mountain-Lion-Man." He 

 went scalp-hunting with a war-party and had one of his legs frozen. 

 They left him with his food, his leg frozen off. He stayed there with 

 but one leg, and got very poor. Nobody was there to help him. 



He heard two Mountain-Lions roar. He got excited. The rest 

 Of the hunters were coming back to get him, but they got into a fight 

 with the Pawnee and forgot him. The two Mountain-Lions came to 

 him, and said : "We came after you. We heard that you were frozen 

 and helpless. The others were to come and get you." The man said : 

 "I do not see how I can go with you. I have but one leg." The 

 Mountain-Lions answered, "Well, we can carry you on our back, and 

 take you along all right." So they got him with their tails and lifted 

 him on their backs and carried him to their den, which was up on a 

 high hill. There they found a male and a female Mountain-Lion. The 



