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close to our home. Do not go to that thick timber which you see from 

 here. A very cruel being lives there. Mark me ! Don't go there," said 

 the father to his boys. So he started off in search of game. 



The mother was inside of the tipi and these two boys started for 

 the thick timber. When they came to it there. was a tipi of smoked hide, 

 and very old looking. "Come in, boys !" said a person inside. When 

 they went in they saw a man alone, with tangled hair. 'Well, my dear 

 boys, sit down close to me and search my head for lice,'' said Tangled- 

 Hair. The boys began picking away, untying his locks of hair, which 

 were very long. Soon it caused him to go to sleep. The boys took 

 each lock of hair and fastened it to the tipi poles inside, all around. 

 They then heated round stones in the fire and placed them in his opened 

 skull. (This Tangled-Hair had an op^n skull, but covered it by tying 

 a big knot on top of his head.) The boys killed him in that way and at 

 once cut off the locks of hair and carried them home. When they 

 reached home, they gave them to their father, telling him to use them 

 on his shirts and leggings. The father wondered and asked his boys 

 how they killed the man. Then he said, "Now, my boys, yonder, lives 

 somebody. He is very strong and fierce. Do not go over there ; for 

 he will surely kill both of you." 



The boys went out to play and sneaked off to the place. They 

 found a large panther ready to spring on them. They shot at it with 

 their arrows and killed it. After skinning it they returned home, 

 giving the hide to their father, telling hirn to use it for a bow-case and 

 arrow quiver. The father was astonished. Again he cautioned his 

 boys, saying, '^Although you have conquered these, I want to tell you 

 that by all means you are not to go to that cliif at the river, for a very 

 powerful creature lives there." The boys understood their father, 

 but sneaked off again. They went to the place and found an eagle 

 in a nest. When they saw him, the twinkling of his eyes would cause 

 them to see lights of different color. "Well, this time I will change 

 my bow and arrow to kill that eagle (thunder-bird)," said one of the 

 boys. So he took a rib and a tendon and converted them into a bow 

 and arrow. With these he shot at the eagle and hit him in the nest. 

 The eagle tried to fly up, but could not do it, for the tendon of the 

 beef, which was the arrow, contracted and brought him to the earth. 

 They killed him and pulled out the feathers from his tail and wings. 

 They went home again and gave the feathers to their father, telling 

 him to use them in making war bonnets, wing feathers, and pendants 

 for things. 



The father became very much afraid, thinking that some great 



