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go through this it will perhaps retard the one that is pursuing you." 

 She started to flee alone, came back several times to kiss him, and 

 finally ran on. The man, the woman, and the boy were all devoured 

 by the wart. As the girl ran through the timber she said: "I wish 

 there were somebody before me who would help me." Then she heard 

 wood being cut ahead of her. The wart was breaking the trees as it 

 rolled along, and as th€ girl looked back and saw it coming she ran 

 to where she heard the noise of the chopping. There she found a man 

 and said to him : "A powerful being pursues me. Help me to escape. 

 If you can save me I will be your wife." The man told her : ''Con- 

 tinue to flee. I can do nothing for you." Four times she asked him and 

 he told her the same . Then the fourth time he told her : "Run around 

 me four times." Now the wart came up to the man and said to him : 

 "What have you done with my food?" The man said: "She went by."^ 

 The wart went on, but came back. Four times it asked him and he told 

 it that the girl had passed on. And four times it started out and came 

 back. After the fourth time it said: "I demand the girl. If you do 

 not give her to me, I will devour you too, together with her." Then 

 it looked straight at him. The man's eyes were not very large, but he 

 had another eye on the back of his neck/ The wart opened its mouth as 

 wide as it could in order to draw him in. The man had been engaged 

 in cutting a bow, and when the wart opened its mouth to draw him in, 

 he put the bow across its mouth and it was unable to swallow the bow. 

 Four times it tried, but he did the same. Then it told the man : "You 

 are more powerful than I. Hit me right in the middle." "Yes, I will 

 hit you right in the middle." said the man, and struck it straight in 

 the middle with his bow and broke it open. Then the boy was seen 

 rolling about, dying. The old people were already dead and the boy 

 soon died. The man asked the girl whether she loved her brother, 

 and she said "Yes." Then he -kicked the boy, saying to him: "Get up, 

 my brother-in-law." Four times he kicked him and said : "Get up, my 

 brother-in-law." Then the boy arose. His name was Beaver-foot, and 

 his sister's name River-woman. The man took the two home with him. 

 He had a wife called Crow-woman. As he entered the tent, he said : 

 "River-woman and Beaver-foot, come in." Then Crow-woman began 

 to speak as if she were cawing. She was jealous. But the man said to 



' In some way not told in the mytli he must have hidden her, it was explained. 



* This is said to indicate that he was a hiintcabiit, or horned water monster. It will be noted 

 that the brother's and sister's names have reference to water, that the girl when Icilled is given to 

 a water monster, that a man appears who l:ills water monsters, that there is a flood, and that the 

 myth closes with an explanation of why there are waters on the earth. The water is said to have 

 risen on account of the spearing of the hiintcabiit. 



