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to play a game again. "No ! I can't go there, because your father 

 caught you; I am going to stay in this spring," said he. "Brother, 

 our father will be gone for a while. I am alone in the tipi. Father 

 made arrow sticks for me. I will let you take some, and then we will 

 have a good game," said By-the-Door inside of the tipi. Spring-Boy 

 finally came out of the spring, looking around to see if his father was 

 near. Aftei: he entered the tipi he peeped through an awl hole to look 

 for his father. Both of them became interested in the game and dis- 

 puted for a long time. By-the-Door said to his brother, "You just lie 

 down and look through the space between the arrows ; I am sure that 

 you will convince yourself by doing so. I won the game, because the 

 arrow touches the other. Look at it closely." So Spring-Boy knelt 

 down, lowering his head to see the result, but all at once his brother 

 jumped on him and held him by the neck. "Father! Father! Come 

 in quickly ! 1 am holding my brother for you !" said By-the-Dcor. The 

 father came rushing, entered and caught the boy. Spring-Boy tried 

 to escape and fought his father, hitting and scratching him badly, but 

 the father and By-the-Door soon overpowered him. 



Both boys became quite useful to their father. Now the boys felt 

 sorry for their father, seeing him crying on account of his wife. 

 "Father, make us two bows and four arrows ; go and erect a sweat-lodge 

 and put our mother inside," said one of them. So the father made one 

 bow with two arrows painted blacky another bow with two arrows 

 painted red, and gave them to the boys. He then went and put up the 

 s^veat-lodge and took his wife inside. The boy with the bow and 

 black arrows stepped forward and shot one arrow in the air above the 

 sweat-lodge. When the arrow returned and was about to light on 

 the ground, he cried out to his mother, "Look out ! Look out, mother !" 

 When the arrows lighted on the ground there was a slight moving of 

 the sweat-lodge. The boy with the bow and red arrows did the same, 

 telling his mother to get out of the way of the arrows. This time the 

 sides, i. e., the coverings, of the sweat-lodge seemed to give way. Then 

 came the boy with the black arrows again. "Look out, mother ! Look 

 out, mother!" said he. The sign was greater, the top part of the lodge 

 was moving. Now came the boy with the bow and red arrows, who shot 

 high as he could. "Oh, mother! Get out of the way! Get out 

 quickly !" said he. The mother came out of the sweat-lodge alive again. 

 The father, seeing the wonderful act of his boys, loved them so much the 

 more, giving thanks for having a wife and boys again. "Well, my 

 boys, I love you. and want you to be obedient to me ; the same to your 

 mother. I have to be on the go to get subsistence for ourselves, so stay 



