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"Indeed not! You kick first!" he said. 



Finally he told her, "If I kick first, I'U win." 



Since she still insisted, Fleakiller kicked. The ball did not fly off, 

 but the Little Person's sister went up into the air and feU on the 

 goalpost which was as sharp at the top as it could be, and her body 

 was pierced and she was kiUed. 



The Little Person went to the post and took oflF the body of his sister, 

 and being a powerful wizard, brought his sister to life again.^^ 



3.— THE LITTLE PEOPLE TAKE FLEAKILLER BEAR HUNTING* 



Since the kick ball, the Little People hated Fleakiller. (Every- 

 body hated him.) The Little People thought: "How can we get rid 

 of him?" So they decided to take him along with them on a bear 

 hunt. He said, "Yes, I am wUling to go with you." So he went. 



The bear lived in a dense laurel thicket in the wilderness. The 

 Little People told FleakiUer to go into the thicket and to stalk the 

 bear so that they could surround the thicket and kiU the bear as it 

 came out. But they did not want the bear; they wanted Fleakiller 

 to get lost. 



Fleakiller went into the thicket, saw the bear, and killed it. (He 

 always carried his bow and arrows with him, and also a piece of brown 

 stone.^*) It was a dark day, and there was no sun. He cut the 

 bear up and prepared the meat to carry it home with him, but when 

 he started to go, he could not find his way back. 



The Little People knew he was lost, and as soon as they retiu-ned 

 home, because they were rid of him forever, they decided that they 

 would have a feast. They were going to have a dance like the Eagle 

 Dance. 



When Fleakiller saw that he was lost, he took his piece of brown 

 stone and said a prayer in which he called his stone "Brown Dog." 

 He then roUed it in the direction of the North, to find out if that was 

 his way to go home. But the stone came rolling back: the North 

 was not his way to go back. 



He then rolled the stone toward the West, to find out if his home 

 was in that direction; but again the stone came rolling back: the 

 West was not his way to go back. 



Next he roUed the stone toward the South, to find out if that was 

 the way he would have to go ; but again the stone came back to where 

 Fleakiller was; the South was not the way. 



" Olbrechts' note: "The end of this story does not seem to be as it ought to be[.] M. [organ] does not 

 seem to be very certain and VV.[ill West Long] is sleepy. M.[organ] seems to make what is told in this story 

 the reason for the L.fittle] People's hate of Flk. [Fleakiller]." The studied enmity of the Little People 

 toward an individual is a motif that we do not find in the published literature. 



" A divining pebble (see Mooney, 1891, pp. 386-387). The motif of rolling a chunky disk toward each o 

 the cardinal directions for the purpose of divination is found In Mooney (1900, p. 246). 



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