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all of the people but the old woman and her two grand- 

 children. The old woman had to bnry the dead the best 

 way she could and to burn the things. The eagle soared 

 up above and never more was heard of. 



The old woman brought up the young ones, and when 

 old enough, she constructed a bow with arrow for the boy, 

 and a batea for the girl, teaching the one how to shoot 

 and the other to clean seed. The boy, at last, killed first 

 a lizard, then a mouse, then a gopher. When old enough 

 she married them, but shortly after the girl turned out 

 bad ; at first she gave the old woman to eat, but after- 

 wards she refused to give her any meat brought by the 

 husband. The old woman, to be revenged, took an awl 

 made of deer's bone and placing it where the other sat, 

 she hurt herself; she put it into the bath, and again hurt 

 herself. When her husband came home she acquainted 

 him, saying, "I have had injury done me twice, and know 

 I have to die ; at any time you are out in the hills and I 

 die, you will know it by feeling some drops of water fall- 

 ing on your left shoulder." Not long after, when out hunt- 

 ing, he felt the drops as he had been told he would. He 

 threw the bow and arrows away and hastened home. In 

 the meantime the old woman had burned and buried the 

 body. "AVhere is m}'' wife?" "I have buried her." 

 " Thou hast done this and shalt die for it ; " taking up a 

 billet of W'Ood to knock her brains out, when she changed 

 into a gopher and hid in the ground. The husband re- 

 mained three days and nights by his wife's grave. On the 

 third day he saw a small whirlwind arise which soon gave 

 out, then another a little larger, and a third, still larger, 

 came out of the grave, and he arose and followed it. 

 After going a long distance he perceived footprints on the 

 ground where it passed over. " This is my wife's," said 

 he, and he followed an iinniense distance, and a voice from 



