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do what you like, said the husband. The old men accord- 

 ingly ordered the people to hunt rabbits as usual, but to 

 stuff them, before roasting, with pieces of wet buckskin, 

 lizards, and other unpalatable reptiles. They did so be- 

 fore giving the repast. The old man asked of the chief, 

 what was to be done with the daughter, whether to take 

 her away or not? "Leave her," said he, "to die with her 

 mother." This day, however, she invited her spectators, 

 for on taking out the leg of a toad, she inquired what it 

 was? "It is a quail," she was answered. "Eat it thou, 

 then," said she, and so she proceeded, taking out strange 

 substances and giving them away. An order was like- 

 wise given to refuse her water, and being very lazy, it 

 was presumed she would not go to the spring. The re- 

 past gave her great thirst. " Give me water !" but none 

 was procurable. She proceeded from hut to hut, with 

 like success, until she arrived at the last, where a large 

 basket of urine was prepared for her ; she nearly finished 

 it at three sups, only leaving a little for her daughter. 

 This occurred every day ; at the end of ten days, all her 

 hair fell out, and from being very pretty, she became old 

 and wrinkled. Seeing herself in such a state, she deter- 

 mined to return to her father, and taking her daughter in 

 her arms, she left ; but on the road, she repented, having 

 taken her daughter, and said, "What a fool I am to 

 be carrying this load, as if they liked me so much." So 

 she threw it away. After going some little distance she 

 looked back and seeing the little infant stretch out its 

 little arms to her, her heart softened, and she exclaimed, 

 "What fault has it committed?" she turned back and 

 took it up again. She went on and on until she got so 

 weak she could go no farther ; at last she was at a great 

 rock, when she took the child by the heels and dashed 

 its brains out, the blood of which is still visible at this 

 day. 



