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the-Door. "Just stoop down on your knees and look, to be sure," said 

 By-the-Door. Spring-Boy was very timid, and constantly looked cut 

 to see if their father was coming. Finally ■ he stooped down on his 

 knees and looked for the winning point for a moment, and straightened 

 himself, saying he was not the loser. "You didn't stoop low enough 

 to see it right," said By-the-Door. "Get right down on your knees 

 and be convinced, for I am sure that I won that arrow," said By-the- 

 Door. So Spring-Boy did as he was told, and all at once his brother 

 jumped on him, calling for his father to rush in. The father rushed in 

 and grabbed his boy, and told him to stop crying, for he had some good 

 arrows for him. But Spring-Boy fought like his brother, but finally 

 gave himself up. 



Now the father and the twin boys were all happy. Before the 

 father prepared to go anywhere in the morning, the boys knew their 

 father was in sorrow, and told him to make two bows and four arrows, 

 one painted black with two arrows, and the other painted red with 

 two arrows, for them ; then to erect a sweat-lodge and to place their 

 mother inside, which he did. Then the boys stepped a short distance 

 from the sweat-lodge. The boy with a black bow shot his arrow up in 

 the air, and said, "Get away, mother ! Get away, mother !" The sweat- 

 iodge moved a little at the bottom. So the other boy shot his red arrow 

 up in the air and cried, "Get away, mother ! Get out, mother !" The 

 sweat-lodge shook distinctly on the sides. Then the first one shot his 

 black arrow up in the air and cried, "Get away, mother !" The sweat- 

 lodge moved at the top and sides very plainly. Then the second boy 

 shot his red arrow up in the air and cried with a loud voice, "Get away, 

 mother ! Get out, mother !" The mother came out of the sweat-lodge 

 alive and in good appearance. Thus the family was formed anew with 

 the twins, and this is the reason that some of the women nowadays 

 give birth to twins. The family were happy again, and the father and 

 mother went at their usual occupations. 



"Now, my dear boys, I want you to be good and to be obedient to 

 me and to your mother. Yonder, in that big grove of timber you must 

 not go, for a very dangerous being lives there," said the father. "I 

 shall be gone for some time for game, and you are to be sure and stay 

 around the tipi." Their father went oflf and the boys said to each other, 

 "Our father cautioned us not to go over to that timber, but let us go 

 over and find out what it is over there that he told us about." So they 

 stole away to the place. When they went into the timber they saw a 

 tanned, smoked-looking tipi standing alone. When they had approached 

 closer, they saw a man in it, who welcomed them, saying, "Come in I 



