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return with them, the uncle said, "These are not the right kind. 

 Fetch spotted arrow shafts." So Tuhe departed again. He took some 

 food with him, and put it down on the ground while he continued 

 walking about. While he was seeking the spotted arrow shafts the 

 Ancient of Rabbits found the food and sat there eating it. Just then 

 Tuhe returned, and the Ancient of Rabbits questioned him, saying, 

 "Whj- are you walking about?" "I am going about because my 

 uncle ordered me to get him some spotted arrow shafts," replied 

 Tuhe. 



"Cut a black rattan vine into four pieces and bring them to me," 

 said the Ancient of Rabbits. This was done by Tuhe. The Rabbit 

 rolled the pieces of the rattan vine over and over, and, behold, they 

 became rattlesnakes that chased one another. But they soon resumed 

 the form of spotted arrow shafts, which Tuhe carried home on his 

 back. On reaching home he began to make the arrows, but the uncle 

 ordered him .to go to seek turkey feathers. 



He found the turke3^s and gathered many feathers, which he carried 

 home. But the uncle said, "These are not the right kind. Fetch 

 white turkey feathers." So Tuhe had to depart again. He reached 

 the edge of a lake, where a very Aged Man sat trapping ducks. 

 Tube's dog scared off the ducks, which went out into the middle of the 

 stream where they sat on the water. "Oh!" said the Old Man, 

 "some one has been coming here, and he has scared off my ducks. 

 See! I will kill j^ou and throw you away." Then arising to his feet 

 he moved along. Tuhe approached him, and the Old Man said, " Why 

 are you walking about?" "My uncle ordered me to procure the 

 feathers of white turkeys; therefore I am walking about," replied the 

 youth. "I will go home and eat," said the Old Man, "and then I will 

 whip you at the place where they roll logs, in which event there will 

 be plenty of white turkeys everywhere." So the Old Man took Tuhe 

 to his home. When he got there, the Old Man cut a bamboo brier in 

 four pieces, with one of which he whipped Tuhe as he moved along. 

 On reaching the end of the course the Old Man took another piece of 

 the brier, continuing the castigation, whipping Tube back to the start- 

 ing point. Then he used the third piece, and finally the fourth, and 

 then left him. 



Tuhe then sat down, being very bloody. His dogs trailed him and 

 were yelping as they came. He whistled, and the dogs came to him 

 and licked off the blood. Then the youth arose, called his dogs, went 

 to the house of the Old Man, and when he found him he killed the Old 

 Man. The dogs seized the Old Woman, who cried out, " 1 fed him," 

 hoping to find mercy. But they killed her. Tuhe climbed up into 

 the loft, where he found a great quantity of dried duck meat, which 

 he threw down, sharing it with his dogs. When he finished eating 

 and was preparing to go home, his sister, who thought that he was 



