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of game. 



When the boy came past Vtsa:yi's house, the latter asked him to 

 gamble, but the boy said that he had nothing to wager. Then 

 Vtsa:yi said, "Let us play for your spots. If I lose, I wiU have them." 

 He said this to make fun of the boy ; but the boy continued on his way. 



When he arrived at where his father lived, his father was absent. 

 He told his stepmother that he was his father's son, and that his 

 mother had sent him to be cured of his spots. 



When Thunder came home, his wife told him what the boy had said, 

 and she said, "I did not know that you had been to urinate out the 

 other way." 



Thunder said that he would soon find out if the boy were his son. 



Next morning he went out to get the medicine with which to doctor 

 the boy, and when he had gathered it all, he put it into an Indian pot 

 to boil, and when it was all boiled, he took his son up by the hand and 

 let him fall into the pot. Then he took the pot and threw it into the 

 river. The pot burst aU to pieces, and lightning came from it and 

 struck a sycamore tree on the opposite bank of the river. 



Then Thunder saw that the boy truly was his son, and he took the 

 boy home with him. 



