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Presently the Swamp Owl and an old man arrived there. When 

 they raised the mortar, there sat the woman making a striped bag. 

 They said to her, "How is it that you have such a great quantity of 

 jerked meat?" To this she replied, "They themselves [i. e., the 

 brothers] seek the game and shoot it." Then the inquirers said, "Do 

 for us as you have done for them when they shot at the game." The 

 woman replied, "Make some arrows." Then they made a single 

 arrow. "If there is but one arrow, how is it possible for you to kill 

 all the game?" exclaimed the woman. "It makes no difference," 

 replied one of the questioners; "I shoot at the game, and then I go 

 on till I see the arrow and pull it out [ready to shoot at something 

 else?]." Just then the woman said, " When the animals are approach- 

 ing, turn the mortar upside down over me." But the}^ could not 

 raise the mortar, and when the animals came, one of the two men shot 

 'at one and missed. Then were they depending- on the woman to pro- 

 tect them, but an aged Buffalo man seized the woman, wrapping her 

 hair around his horns, and thus carried her away. 



Then the woman said [to herself], "I wonder if they can hear if 1 

 say anything?" So she sang. And the Ancient of the Blue Darters 

 was close to her and heard her. So he called to the Ancient of Red- 

 tailed Hawks. And when the Ancient of Red-tailed Hawks heard, he 

 went a little farther and called to the others. " What is your sister 

 saying as she sits in the distance?" said each one to the others. Then 

 they started home at intervals, one after another. On reaching home 

 they found that their sister had disappeared. They seized the bird 

 that was tied (perhaps the Ancient of Red Birds), threw it into the fire, 

 and went off in great haste. Behold, the woman was [sitting] in the 

 very middle of the stream. 



The Ancient of Blue Darters was the first to reach her. He untied 

 som'e of her hair and returned. Then the Ancient of Red-tailed Hawks 

 went to aid his sister. He untied a little more and then returned. 

 The Ancient of Marsh Hawks went and untied one-half before he 

 returned. When the Ancient of Fish-hawks went he untied all the 

 rest, and after some delay managed to take hold of her. He was 

 returning to land with her, and on reaching the edge of the water he 

 lost his hold and dropped her. She made a splashing as she fell and 

 cried out ''^Toho'^+k!^'' as the four brothers were sitting on the land 

 looking at one another. 



Then said she to them, "Come hither." So they approached her 

 and stood at the water's edge. Then she gave them names, beginning 

 with "the Ancient of Fish-hawks." "The people shall call you 

 Tconktcona, and you shall have that name. You shall eat fish and 

 ducks, but you must never kill me or any of my kind," said she. She 

 said the same thing to the Ancient of Marsh Hawks. To the Ancient 

 of Red-tailed Hawks she said, "The people shall call you Paxexka, and 



