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and were sleeping when the Ancient of Crows finished cooking. This 

 was at midnight. She said: " I have finished cooking. Arise [ye] and 

 eat." Then replied the old woman: "I have finished eating. 1 have 

 had plenty;" and she went to sleep again. 



Then the Ancient of Crows sat there ashamed. The next morning 

 she went to bring something on her back. She was doing this all 

 da3\ Subsequently the Ancient of Wood- rats was carrying something 

 on her back all through the night, and during the day she was sleep- 

 ing; but when night came she resumed her occupation. 



After they had been acting thus for some time, the Ancient of Crows 

 said: " Look upstairs. They who gather at night ought to have col- 

 lected the most. As I gather in the day, I am of little or no account. 

 But it makes no difference to me! Look upstairs." Then the others 

 climbed up, and found a few things piled here and there in the corners. 

 The old woman exclaimed, " O! all that you have collected is a parcel 

 of acorns!" (?) Then she took them by the handful and ate them. 

 Subsequently the Wood-rat, too, said: '"Those who gather during the 

 day ought to have collected much. As I gather things at night, I am 

 of little or no account. But it makes no difference to me! Look up- 

 stairs." When they climbed and looked the objects were falling con- 

 stantl}^, as the Wood- rat had gathered a great quantity of mast. The 

 old woman was very greedy; she took the mast by the handful and 

 ate it. Then to show her appreciation of the Ancient of Wood-rats 

 she gave her a new blanket. But when she did that, she put on the 

 Ancient of Crows a decayed blue cover [of some sort]. Then the 

 Ancient of Crows turned and went toward sunrise. She came to a 

 black stump on whioh she sat and sang. By and by she seized an insect 

 which had a rough body, and immediately she changed into a crow 

 flying off as she cried "A! a!" And the people always say that for 

 that reason crows are cawing. 



Subsequent to the departure of the Ancient of Crows, the Ancient 

 of Wood-rats changed into an ordinary wood-rat, after putting on the 

 new blanket, and went into a thicket. And because of the blanket, 

 the wood -rat always has plenty of hair. 



15. Ama Kidunahi, or The World Turned Over 

 Ama' kidu'nahix ka°' a°'ya de' tea o'^'ni etu' xa. Ekeka"' 



Earth rolled [orturned when people this they died (in they say regularly. And then 

 over and over?] the past) 



a'^'xti so'^'sa a'^tatka' no^pa'ye da° aya'^'-k ato'we nank o'^'ni. 



woman one child shetooktwo finished (?) tree(ob.) she lodged in it sat inthepast. 



Na'x kide' ani-ya"^' xe'pi ka'' tci'dike de' ti'dupi' hi ni'ki nax 



Sat till water the went down when how to go to alight none sat 



ka°' E'xka-na'ske-na' ka° "Tidu'wi-yanka-te'," kiy6' ka°, "e'ke 



when Ancient of Red-headed when " Help me to get do\vTi " she said to when "so 



Bu2zards (female to male), him 



]k:o' aHatka' so'^'sa iku' hi ni'," kiye'di. Kiye' ka° tidu'wiy§ 



if child one I will give to you " she said to She said when he helped her 



(female speaking) him. to him to get down 



