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He went back to look for her at the place where he had last seen her. 

 He COUI4 not find even her tracks and began to cry. Next morning all 

 the people looked for her. They were camped there a long time trying 

 to find her. Then they moved to where buffalo were plenty, giving her 

 up as surely lost. Her husband mourned for her. — K. 



64. — How THE Dwarfs were killed.' 



Once, when the people had killed buffalo at some distance from 

 their camp, the dwarfs came to help them skin the buffalo and to beg 

 for food. They would sit close to a buffalo, and when the people asked 

 them, "What part do you want?" the dwarfs would say, 'T want the 

 heaviest part of the meat." The people would answer, "We do not 

 know which is the heaviest part. What do you want?" "The heavi- 

 iest part of the meat," the dwarfs continued to say. Then the people 

 told them, 'Tick out what you want" ; and the dwarfs took the lungs. 

 Meanwhile a person had gone to the dwarfs' camp and there saw 

 hearts with arteries hanging up. He took an awl and pricked each of 

 the hearts. Out on the prairie the dwarfs dropped dead. Only one 

 little one was left. "Whose is this?" "It is my heart," said the little 

 boy pitifully. He had been left at home to watch the hearts of the 

 others. Then the person stuck this heart also and the dwarf boy fell 

 dead.— K. 



65. — How the Cannibal Dwarfs were killed. 



A man was traveling along the river in search of game. He went 

 up a hill to look for some kind of animal, but he saw that the atmos- 

 phere was smoky in the timber. So he walked to the place, and found 

 a tipi by itself. "Somebody is coming, somebody stops at the door, 

 somebody walks from the door, somebody is walking around the tipi, 

 somebody stops at the door and waits for admittance," said some one 

 inside. So this hunter went in and saw a small man (Hashashihi, 

 which means dwarf person), sitting alone, and he was blind. "Well! 

 Well ! You are the only good person bringing yourself for food," said 

 the dwarf, moving himself and looking tip in the air. "Well, yes, I 

 came to deliver myself to you. I am very fat and I know that you will 

 relish the meat with your folks" (relatives), said the man. "Thank 

 you ! that is what I need," said the dwarf. "I suppose you are hungry 

 and ready to take me," said the man. "Oh, no ! You may wait until 



' Informants J. 



* Cf. Russell, Journ. .Am. Folk Lore, XI, 262 (Jicarilla Apache). 



