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handed the child to her, and looking for a few moments at her hair, he 

 wrapped it round and round one hand, while he waved the other hand 

 to the chief. When the chief reached there, he took hold of his wife, 

 and then the men took the woman home. 



When they reached home. Pretty Woman sat there pouijding corn. 

 By and by she asked her brother to go to their grandfather's house 

 and borrow a sieve; but the brother refused to go, saying, "Go, 

 yourself." 



So she departed. On her arrival she saw some sort of skin there. 

 It was the skin of Crooked Teeth. The old man had found the body 

 of Crooked Teeth after she had been burnt; he had flayed it and had 

 stretched the skin. "What kind of skin is that one? " asked Pretty 

 Woman. "It is a panther skin," replied the old man. "1 do not 

 think so," replied Pretty Woman. "Grandfather, what skin is it?" 

 " It is the skin of a wildcat," said he. "I do not think so," replied she. 

 "If you will tell me what skin it is, I will give you a very fat deer 

 brisket." "It is the skin of your other sister," said the old man 

 [referring to Crooked Teeth]. "That is so, and I said what I did 

 because I suspected this," answered Pretty Woman. Then she ran 

 homeward. 



On reaching home, she took the deer brisket in her hand and ran 

 till she arrived at the house of her grandfather, to whom she gave it. 



Returning home again, she took her boy and ran toward the water. 

 She fell into the water, saying, "Ta-o"^," and immediately she became 

 a "squealer duck," that utters such a note. At the same time her 

 boy was changed into a minnow. Therefore since that time there 

 have been "squealer ducks" and minnows. 



27. The Indian and the Deer People 



A°ya' wuki'xti wax ni' ha'nde ha"' sikak' ato'pixti ha'ne, da'^'x 



Person worthless hunt- walk- was and deer-skin very fresh found, took it 

 ing ing (ob.) up 



kide' ne'di. Ekeha'^' ej^a'^'x ki'di ya'^'xa ko, "S^ko' ha'' fiko'di nka 



going moved. And then there reached almost when, "I shot and I shot it 1 say 

 home (?) home at it 



ni'," yihi' nix ne' ka° Ita' kidixi'yetu', a'^'xti ha*" kidixi'yetu'. 



will," he going moved when Deer they caught up woman they caught up 



thought (?) with him, with him. 



Ekeha'" a'hi-ya'" kitci' yuke'di, i'^'xtuta'tu ha'", "Ya'^xku'-daha-te'," 



And then skin "the did not 'they were, it was tlieirs and, ''Give it [back] to us ' 



wish to (females to male) 



give it up 



5 e' yuke' ka", "E'ke ko', nyiku'-daha' ko', ya^'yinkaxtu' hi hi'da""," 



say- they when, "So if, I give it back to if, you (pi.) marry will ?" 



ing were you (pi.) me 



e' ka°, "IMa'l" hetu' ka'', ku'-daha'. Ekeha°' akuwi'x ka'de, 



said when "Weill" they said when, he gave it to And then taking him they 



he that them. with them went 



home, 



"A^ya'xi-ya'" na'xe kaHca'," he' haHca' a'de o'^nidi'. Ama"' tupe' 



"Chief the hear it must first saying and after they departed for Ground hole in 



[and then— ]•" tliat that thatieasou. 



