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64. — How THE Dwarfs were killed. 



The dwarfs beg the people for the heaviest, part of the meat. Their re- 

 quest is granted and they take the lungs. A person going to the dwarfs' 

 camp sees their hearts hanging up. He pricks each one and the dwarfs fall dead. 

 — K. 



65. — How the Cannibal Dwarfs were killed. 



Man traveling in search of game sees smoke in timber. Finds tipi by 

 itself. Goes in and sees blind dwarf sitting alone. Pretends he has come to 

 ■deliver himself for food. Man goes out and cuts stick which he. sharpens at one 

 end. Asks what are things suspended to tipi poles. Dwarf tells him they are hearts 

 belonging to his relatives. Man asks whose heart one is and dwarf says his 

 father's. Man punches heart with stick and father drops, while relatives of 

 dwarf are away looking for human food. Man then asks to whom the next 

 heart belongs. Dwarf says to his mother. Man punches it and owner of 

 it drops, being away from tipi. Man asks dwarf owners of different hearts 

 and pierces them with stick. Dwarf says last heart is hi.s own and when man 

 pierces it he dies. Appearance of dwarfs was cruel and speech like that of child. 

 — D. V 



66. — The Cannibal Dwarf. 



People moving to another camping ground, two young girls forget some 

 things. They go back and ask of a dwarf if he has seen anything of their pil- 

 lows. Instead of telling them, he asks them their names. One said her name 

 was Bracelet (Worquney) and the other Thick Hair (Bathaney). He laughs 

 heartily and turns from girls. He continually asks their names, turning his back 

 on them, because he sees he has the advantage of them. Girls run away from 

 him. Small man calls after them but girls are afraid of him. He would have 

 outraged them and killed them for food. — D. 



67. — The Dwarf who tried to catch a Woman. 



A dwarf seizes a girl in order to marry her. She persuades him first to 

 €nter the river and wash himself. While he is under water she hides under 

 the overhanging vegetation of the bank and remains there until morning, when 

 she is rescued. — K. 



68. — The Dwarf who caught a Woman. 



A dwarf seizes a girl, carries her off, and marries her. She lives with 

 the dwarfs and has a child. The child cries until the dwarf takes his wife back 

 to the people. The fourth time she is recognized by her family. She gives 

 them much meat, which the dwarf brings her four times. Then he does not 

 come back. — K. 



69. — Sleepy- Young-Man and the Cannibals. 



In camp-circle, nice young man, but lazy. Always on bed. Father one 

 day expostulates with him and says he will never get to the cannibals if he 

 sleeps all the time. On fourth morning young man gets up, having decided to 



