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When it was hot, he said : "Here is your meat," and put it on her face 

 and burned her to death. He said : "You have done what was not right. 

 T giVe you this punishment." When he killed her the rest knew it and 

 returned. He went outside and saw them coming running at top speed, 

 one behind the other. When they came near him they said : "You cannot 

 go up to the sky, you cannot go underground. You cannot escape 

 from us ; we will surely catch you." He said : "I have the gift of 

 swiftness by means of this bow. First, I shall have the swiftness of a 

 chicken-hawk." When they came close, he motioned with his bow 

 and rose up and flew away swiftly. They followed him swiftly. He 

 came down to earth, and they did so too. Four times they did this. 

 He began to be tired. "Now, by means of this bow, I shall try to do 

 something on the ground," said Clot-child. He became a jack-rabbit. 

 He ran away, jumping like a jack-rabbit, and they followed him. Then 

 the third time he decided not to spare them. Running toward the river, 

 he became a cotton-tail rabbit. They had nearly caught him. The river 

 was frozen thin. He ran across, turned, and stood there like a man, 

 while they broke through in various places. "Let the ice close and 

 become as solid as if ground," he said. Thus he destroyed them. Then 

 he went to his parents. The old man said : "Where were you?" Clot- 

 child said : "I tried to escape from some persons and finallykilled them." 

 "What dangerous beings you have met and destroyed !" said the old 

 man. He was glad that his son had succeeded. They went on again. 

 The old man said : "There where the hill is white along the river is a 

 deep canyon, and there is another dangerous person." "Yes, I will go 

 there," said Clot-child. Then he went there. He came near. Some' 

 one was motioning to him with a blanket to come. He thought : "Well, 

 T am coming, he need not hurry me. I will arrive there when I arrive." 

 Then he came close. The person continued to motion to him to come. 

 He motioned to him to come quietly. He said softly : "Do not make 

 a noise ! He might hear you ! I will explain to you later." "Very 

 well," said Clot-child. The man took him by the hand and led him 

 to the edge of a big hole. "Look over the edge! Step softly, make 

 no noise !" he whispered. "Yes," Clot-child said. He was very care- 

 ful. When he was at the edge, the man made a push at him. "I push 

 daylight," he said, as Clot-child stepped to one side, and he fell down 

 the brink. "Right into the ribs," said Clot-child, and the man fell 

 head first into the ribs of a dead body below and tore the skin from 

 his face. Then the boy went down and cut ofif his arms and his feet. 

 He said to him : "You are alive now. I will kill you. But you will 

 become an animal, one with a bare head. You will not be dangerous." 



