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He had a very large fish out of which he took the eyes to make 

 grease for his guests, and he also made them bows and arrows ; these with a 

 lump of grease each he gave to the brothers, and said that this grease 

 would never decrease in size, and that if they killed anything with the 

 arrows, which they could not get, they had only to sleep, and on 

 awakening they would find it beside them. 



The elder brother shot his arrows into the air, and they always kept 

 ascending, and would not come down; he tried to recover them, but 

 when he had ascended some distance in the air he could not come back, 

 and began to cry. His younger brother cried in sympathy, and was 

 transformed into a wolf. He that was in the air now got to the ground, 

 and asked his brother why he had become a wolf; he then said, "When 

 I see foxes, hares and rabbit tracks I'll know I am on the earth". After 

 this he travelled, and saw squirrels, mice, and other small animals, and 

 shortly after came to a house which he thought belonged to them. He 

 found an old woman in the house; she had two daughters, one of whom 

 was a mouse, the other a squirrel. When she wanted anything killed 

 she sent one of them to do the job. A man came to the old woman, 

 who dressed him, and who wanted one of her daughters to take him as 

 her husband. When the maidens came home their mother told them to 

 sit one on each side of the man, and she to whom he should turn his 

 face was to be his bride. 



The man lay down between the sisters, and when he awoke he found 

 himself beneath the ground. A wolf that happened to pass that way 

 took pity on him, and with a deer's tooth dug him out, and then made 

 him two arrows. "One of these arrows", said the wolf, "is a man, and 

 the other a woman, and you are to kill buffalo with them." He killed 

 two buffalo with the arrows. 



The old woman, the squirrel, and the mouse shortly after turned 

 up, and he sent them for meat when the squirrel was killed by the wolf. 

 He of the arrows took the other girl, i.e., the mouse, for a wife, and con- 

 tinued hunting the buffalo, attended by his Mother-in-law, the old woman 

 who made lines of the buffalo hides. These three appeared at this time 

 to be in an upper level or story of the heavens, and the lines were used 

 to lower the man down to the earth; he landed near an Eagle's nest; 

 the old Eagle ordered the young ones to pounce upon the man, and eat 

 him; then the young Eagles told the Indian to get under their wings and 

 hide from the old Eagles. When the parents of the young birds 

 came home they said to the young ones, "You smell very much of 

 Indian." The young ones answered, "Did you not bring an Indian to 

 us; well we have eaten him, and that is why we smell of Indian". 



