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obeyed and followed it., They reached their destination, the sky. 

 Then they came to a tent. Before they reached it, the moon left his 

 wife. He went inside to his parents and told his mother : "Go to get 

 your daughter-in-law behind the tent." The old woman went out and 

 brought the girl in. She looked beautiful to her, as she previously had 

 to the moon. She and the moon sat down together on their bed. Soon 

 the sun came in. He had gone to the camp towards the east. He 

 said the same to his mother as the moon had said to her. The old wo- 

 man went outside and looked. In a little hiding place of weeds a frog 

 hopped. She thought it was merely an animal. "I wonder where his 

 wife is ? I can't find her," she said. "Where are you ?" she said aloud. 

 A voice came : ''Here I am." It was the croaking voice of the frog. 

 The old woman took her into the tent. The moon said : ''My older 

 brother, did you wish to have such a wife?" The moon was not 

 pleased with his sister-in-law the frog. The sun said to his younger 

 brother: "Now I think you were right. The human woman that you 

 brought is indeed beautiful." The moon said to his parents : "Must 

 we keep her to live with us ? Her eyes are large, her face is large, her 

 skin is rough, her belly is big, and her legs are small." The frog was 

 injured by what he said, but restrained herself and did not speak 

 angrily. The moon told his mother : "Decide whom you love the best. 

 Cock paunch for them. Then point to her that makes the greatest 

 noise in chewing." The frog heard what he said, and took charcoal. 

 When they competed, the beautiful woman made much noise chewing ; 

 but the frog slobbered, and the black saliva ran down the corners of her 

 mouth. Thus her deceit was revealed. Four times the moon spcke 

 in ridicule about the frog. When she heard him the . fourth 

 time, she said : "I renounce living with your brother. But the old 

 woman likes me and does not want me to go away. Therefore my 

 body shall be part of yours and shall be with you as long as you live." 

 The frog jumped and alighted on the breast of the moon. She re- 

 mained there. That is why the moon at night has a dark spot. 



Now the woman began to have a child. It was bom as a boy. 

 There were many buffalo where they lived, because the father, mother, 

 and sons had taken the buffalo up with them from the earth. The 

 people on earth were starving. The child grew up very fast. The 

 father and the sons went out hunting to procure food. The woman 

 went over the country in two directions, west and east, where the wild 

 roots grew. The old woman told her : "There are two kinds for you 

 to dig, hiitceni and hia"gtcein. But do not dig any hia°gtcein that 

 are dead or withered." For some time the woman obeved her instruc- 



