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her : "Walk around me four times." She was in such fear that she 

 felt impelled to run away, but she walked around him four times never- 

 theless. Then the skull arrived, and called to the man : "Where is 

 my food, the girl ? Where is my food, the girl ?" The man said : "She 

 has gone on." The skull passed by, but when it could find' no tracks, 

 it shouted again: "Where have you hidden her? Give^her to me. She 

 is mine to eat." Then the man motioned with his bow, and the skull 

 burst, and all that it had eaten was visible; tents and people and 

 entire camps. The last three victims were still wriggling. The girl 

 said to the man : "Pity my father, my mother, and my dog, and make 

 them live, and I will be your wife." He rubbed the bow over their 

 bodies, and they got up alive. Then he told the old man and the old 

 woman : ''Load the dog with your property and go off to live at that 

 hill." Then he and the girl went to where he lived near the river. They 

 stood before his tent and he called: "My wife, come out. I have 

 brought your younger sister." Soon an old, black, ugly woman came 

 out and showed only joy for the young wife. 



The man had to go hunting, but before going he warned his wife : 

 "Do mot do what my wife tells vou ; do not go away with her from 

 the tent, or bathe with her." After three days the old woman finally 

 succeeded in persuading the girl to go bathing with her. They went 

 to a pool in the river covered with green scum. The old woman was 

 slow to undress. Suddenly she attempted to push the girl from be- 

 hind, but the girl stepped aside and threw the old woman in. Then 

 she held her under the water and in spite of her cries for mercy 

 drowned her and threw her into the deep pool. Then she went home 

 and was afraid of her husband. When he came back he was glad to be 

 rid of the other wife. Then the girl warned him : "Do not pick up 

 your arrows to shoot with thetn a second time at the same game." 

 Once the man was hunting prairie chickens. He had shot away all his 

 arrows. He saw one of the birds near him. Then he shot at it with 

 one of the arrows he had already used. Immediately the whirlwind ^ 

 came and carried him up and away. 



His wife went on a hill and mourned and cried there until she 

 went to sleep. The second day that she went to cry, her abdomen was 

 large and she wondered about it. The third day it was more so." The 

 fourth day she gave birth to a boy. She went out on the hill and cried 

 again. When she came back to the tent she found him larger. When- 

 ever she went out she found him grown on her return ; until on the 



' "Black jack and the wliirlwind,'' as the myth was recorded. Cf., Petitot, Trad. Ind. du Canada 

 Nord-Ouest, 1886, 126, 354. 



* Putavit propter urinam se turgere. 



