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but be sure not to look at him. He will shout when he comes, but do 

 not look at him, or the powerful one might come into your tent," Thus 

 he said to his wife when he went to hunt, and when he had told her he 

 went oflf. 



Then Tangled-hair came to the woman, but she did not look at 

 him. Then, when she would not look at him, he went back to where he 

 came from. This first time he came he could do nothing to her, this 

 insane man. Every time he came she did not look at him, but the 

 fourth time she made a hole with an awl in the side of the tent on the 

 left of the door. "When he goes back I will see how he looks," she 

 said to herself, and then she locked out through that small hole in the 

 tent. "Here !" he said to her, and turned right back and came in. "I 

 am hungry. Give me something to eat," he said to this woman. Then 

 she gave him food on a tray of clay. "That is not my kind of tray," 

 he said. Then she gave him another tray of wood. "That is not the 

 kind of tray I use," he said. Then she gave him a war bonnet as a 

 tray for his food ; but he said the same thing. Then she gave him 

 her dress for a tray. "That is nearly the kind I use," he said. Then 

 she gave him her moccasins for a tray, and he said again : "That 

 is nearly the kind I use." Then she lay down for him on her back. 

 "That is it," he said to her. After he finished eating he wiped his knife 

 on her, saying: "Sometimes the knife goes through the meat and cuts 

 the person." Then he cut her open. She had twins, both of them boys. 

 Then he took them. One of these boys he threw into a spring; the 

 other one he threw to the right (south) of the tent door. After he 

 had thrown them away in these places he left them. 



The man came back, bringing meat, and called his wife ; but she 

 did not answer when he called. At once he knew that she had been 

 killed. He went inside to look at her. She was lying cut open. "I 

 told you so !" he said to her. Then he cried for her. He went outside 

 on a hill and mourned for her. After a time he came in again. His 

 bow and arrows lay scattered. He gathered his arrows and put them 

 into the quiver with his bow. When he had put them back he went out 

 again on the hill. When he next came in, his arrows were scattered 

 again. Then, going out, he hung his robe on a stick and said to it : 

 "Cry." Then he secretly came back to his children. The boy from 

 the right side of the door had come, and the ether one. Spring-child, 

 had come to play with him. "Come, Spring-child, let us play," Door- 

 child said to Spring-child. Then they played. "Our father is still 

 crying," Door-child said. The man was hiding near his tent. They 

 continued to play, while their father was watching outside the tent. 



