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arrow !" said By-the-Door, pleasantly and eagerly. He himself stooped 

 down, but raised up in a moment. Finally Spring-Boy stooped down 

 and acted very wild and occasionally looked around to see the results. 

 "Oh ! Look at it closely and be certain, for I don't want to beat you 

 fraudulently," said By-the-Door, advancing to him by degrees until 

 he got close to him. So Spring-Boy squatted down and eagerly looked 

 at the space, when all at once By-the-Door jumped on top of him. 

 "Oh, father ! Come quickly ! I have caught your boy for you !" said 

 he, holding him tightly. The father came in panting and caught the 

 boy wrestling with his brother. 



Spring-Boy fought his father, scratched and bit him painfully. 

 The boy screamed, but his father told him that he must cease crying, 

 for they were together again. "My dear boy, look at your arrows 

 yonder ! See your clothing in the bags, the food in the parfleches and 

 plenty of toys' inside," said the father, bleeding from bites and 

 scratches. Spring-Boy finally yielded and once more became a dear 

 child. So there was a dear father with twins by the side of the dead 

 mother for some time. 



One day while their father was yet in sorrow, both boys went to 

 him and said, "Say, father, make us bows and arrows ! Make bows 

 out of the last or short ribs of a buffalo; also go and cut sticks and 

 make four arrows. Paint one bow with two arrows in red, and the 

 other bow with two arrows in black, and bring them to us!" said the 

 boys in good spirits, playing in the weeds and bushes near their tipi. 

 So their father, to please his youngsters, went and made those bows 

 and arrows as ordered. "Boys, here are your painted bows and ar- 

 rows," said he, holding them in sight. Both came running to him with 

 smiling faces and received them. 



"Now, dear father, go and make a sweat-lodge in front of your 

 tipi, just a little to the right, and carry our mother inside," said they, 

 earnestly and joyfully. The father, seeing that the boys were in earn- 

 est and in good faith, went down the ravine and brought out small 

 willows. Then he went to the river and brought cottonwood bark for 

 heating ; also sage and stones. In a short time he had the sweat-lodge 

 completed and carrying his wife inside, placed her at the west 

 side of the sweat-lodge and came out. After he had performed 

 the usual rite inside and had taken the heated stones inside, he 

 stepped away from the lodge to see the act of raising the dead. The 

 boys stood, one on each side of the sweat-lodge, with their bows and 

 arrows, the boy with the red bow and arrows on the south side, while the 

 other stood on the north side. (This was the original painting of the 



