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the ground, moving around and around, as he still drove off the flies. 

 The woman said : "My brother-in-law, listen to me. I will tell you the 

 truth. It is on account of you that we are in poverty ; on account of 

 you we must camp alone ; they think of us like dogs and treat us like 

 dogs. Constantly we are abused and treated cruelly on account of 

 you." ''Hei ! lead the way, my sister-in-law," he said, and jumped 

 out of the pit with his switch. Then they both went back. While they 

 were still walking, night came on. 



When they reached camp, the nanaana'^heigi^ were drumming in a 

 tent. It is they who keep the camp good (in order). The young man 

 said to his sister-in-law : "Go straight where the drum is beating. Tell 

 them: 'Lime-Crazy^ has come back.' Tell them that when you enter." 

 Then the woman went inside. "Lime-Crazy has come back," she said. 

 She had not got through when they cried: "She lies! Throw her 

 out! Kill her!" and she went out again, "I had said only half of it 

 when they drove me out," she told her brother-in-law. "Go back and tell 

 them: 'Lime-Crazy has come back.' Tell them that when you enter." 

 When she had said it, the men caught her and put hot fat on her face 

 so that she cried out for help. "Aha**!" Lime-Crazy said, as he en- 

 tered. "What are you doing?" No one dared to speak. All lowered 

 their heads. "Come .sit like this, all evenly in a circle," he said to the 

 nanaana"heinigi. Then they all sat in an even circle. "Well, my sister- 

 in-law, take the kakaa'^x," strike them all on their shins with it ; strike 

 them with all your might," he told her. So the woman struck each one 

 of them, all around the circle, with the kakaa'^x ; not one of them spoke 

 a word. After she had struck them all, Lime-Crazy said : "My sister- 

 in-law, go and look for the best tent you can find,- and the clothes that 

 seem to you to be the best ; and go and select food for yourself, and 

 horses that are good and sound, and whatever seems good to you. 

 Whatever is good for life, take that for yourself." Then she did thus, 

 and soon the tent of the chief (the older brother) stood up finely 

 again, the best in the camp. Herds of horses belonged to him ; he was 

 again the first of the people, and lived well. So the older brother was 

 chief once more. Then he said again to Lime-Crazy: "My friend, 

 let us cross the river to hunt." Then they crossed the river where it 

 was fordable, and hunted in the timber. Then Lime-Crazy's older 

 brother again deserted Him. Then Lime-Crazy gathered eagle 

 feathers. A hawk told him : "Pray to the one that owns the river. 



' The society of old men who liold the hinanahanwu. See Nos. 6, 9. 



" Haaatinahanlcan, "lime-crazy," or "white-paint-fool." Compare the nankhahanka", "white- 

 fool," of the hahankanwu, the fool or crazy-lodge. 



" A wooden sword or wand, used in the biitahanwu. Also any sword. 



