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it with you now?" She said, "Who are you? What do you want?" 

 The person came in, and she looked up. It was a man with tangled 

 hair. The man took his seat at the back of the tipi in the center and 

 warmed himself. The wife then cooked some beef for him. She 

 passed it to him in a wooden bowl, but he said to her, "That is not the 

 kind of bowl I am accustomed to." She got another utensil. Still the 

 man said it was not the kind. She even placed the beef in her robe 

 and meat bags, which were rejected. She took her leggings off and 

 used them. The man said, "That is almost the kind." She then took 

 her dress off and laid it in front of him and placed on it the beef. "You 

 are about to get the right thing," said the man, moving himself occa- 

 sionally. 



The wife took the dress and put it on again. She thought to her- 

 self and wondered what she might do to satisfy the visitor. She then 

 got up and laid herself across in front of him and placed on herself the 

 beef. The man said, "That is the kind, the only kind of bowl I use." 

 He then began eating. Just about the time he was to swallow the last 

 piece, he said to her, "Sometimes a man strikes the bowl," so he cut her 

 belly open. He found twins, fully grown. He took one and threw 

 him outside ; the other one he threw near the door, inside. After placing 

 the woman on her bed with her back to the fireplace, he went out. 



The husband returned and called out for his wife, but she did not 

 answer. "I told you to be careful of yourself while I was gone," said 

 the husband. The husband, thinking that perhaps she was fast asleep, 

 took the blankets off and turned her toward the fire, when he discovered 

 that her belly was cut open. He covered her again and went out in 

 the prairie and wept. In the morning, he would go out to mourn for 

 his wife, and when he returned he would find his arrows lying around 

 inside. "I wonder who takes my arrows olit and leaves them scattered 

 on the ground," said the husband. He placed them back in the quiver. 

 The husband decided to learn who did the mischief inside, so he came 

 home secretly, and sure enough, he heard boys arguing about a game. 

 He went slowly to the door, and all at once he made a break for the boys. 

 He caught one boy, whose name was "By-the-Door." This boy cried 

 and tried to get away. His father talked to him of the property he 

 owned, etc., so finally, the boy stopped crying and consented to live 

 with his father. His father instructed him to get his twin brother inside 

 the tipi and to play the game of arrows again. 



When By-the-Door was caught, the other boy ran out and went 

 into a spring, so his name was "Spring-Boy." When the father had 

 gone, By-the-Door called Spring-Boy to come out and come in the tipi 



