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rain, and when we are under cover, it is nice to sleep." One of the 

 boys said, "When we are lying down under the pine trees and the wind 

 blows softly through them and has a weird sound, it is nice to sleep." 

 All but one of the snakes went to sleep, and that one tried to enter the 

 rectum of each of the boys and failed, on account of the flat stone. The 

 boys killed all the other snakes but that one, and they took that one and 

 rubbed its head against the side of a cliff, and that is the reason why 

 snakes have flattened heads. 



Again the boys were scolded by their father, who said, "There is 

 a man living on that steep cut bank, with deep water under it, and if 

 you go near it he will push you over the bank into the water for his 

 father in the water to eat." The boys went to the place, but before 

 going, they fixed their headdresses with dried grass. Upon their ar- 

 rival at the edge of the bank, one said to the other, "Just as he is about 

 to push you over, lie down quickly." The man from his hiding place 

 suddenly rushed out to push the boys over, and just as he was about to 

 do it, the boys threw themselves quickly upon the ground, and the man 

 went over their heads, pulling their headdress with him, and his father 

 in the water ate him. 



Upon the boys' return, and after telling what they had donte, their 

 father scolded them and told them, "There is a man who wears moc- 

 casins of fire, and when he wants anything, he goes around it and it is 

 burned up." The boys ascertained where this man lived and stole upon 

 him one day when he was sleeping under a tree and each one of the 

 boys took off a moccasin and put it on and they awoke him and ran 

 about him and he was burned and went up in smoke. They took the 

 moccasins home. 



Their father told them that something would yet happen to them ; 

 for they had killed so many bad things. One day while walking the 

 valley they were lifted from the earth and after travelling in mid air 

 for some time, they were placed on top of a peak in a rough high moun- 

 tain with a big lake surrounding it and the Thunder-Bird said to them, 

 "I want you to kill a long otter that lives in the lake; he eats all the 

 young ones that I produce and I cannot make him stop." So the boys 

 began to make arrows, and they gathered dry pine sticks and began to 

 heat rocks, and the long otter came towards them. As it opened its 

 mouth the boys shot arrows into it; and as that did not stop it from 

 drawing nearer, they threw the hot rocks down its throat, and it curled 

 up and died afterwards. They were taken up and carried through the 

 air and gently placed upon the ground near their homes, where they 

 lived for many years. 



