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Then the girl took the beautiful plume and swung it over her dead 

 brothers' bodies, and they came back to life. When they knew the 

 powers of the plume, they went to the place where the bare bones 

 were piled up on the ground, and they put the bones together, and 

 joined those of one person to chose of another. They put a man's 

 head on a woman's body, and they put women's heads on men's 

 bodies, and all the bones were mixed together; and they put one 

 leg of a tall man together with another of a short man. So we see now 

 that some men have no beards, for they have women's heads; and 

 some women have whiskers because they have men's heads; and 

 some people limp because they have legs belonging to different persons ; 

 and many other things besides these happened. Thus they assem- 

 bled the bones. 



A large number of bones covered the plain; and after they had 

 gathered the bones, Nalq took the beautiful plume and waved it over 

 the bones where they were lying on the ground. The first time he 

 moved the beautiful plume, behold! there was a noise; the bones 

 shook and came together. He waved it a second time, and, lo! 

 sinews and flesh came to be on the bones. He waved it a third time, 

 and skin covered the flesh, but there was no breath in them. He 

 waved it a fourth time; and while he thus swung the beautiful plume 

 the fourth and last time, he said, "Let air from the four winds come 

 and breathe upon these bodies, that they may come to iife again!" 

 Then the four winds blew hard, and breath came back into the bodies, 

 and they were alive, stood up, an exceedingly great multitude. 



Then the four young men went home to their mother. Their 

 mother scolded them for having taken hold of the beautiful plume, 

 and the young men were ashamed on account of the scolding they 

 had received. Therefore they left home, and left their sister with their 

 mother. They were about to travel over the whole world, and they 

 went on and on until they arrived at the foot of a high, steep moun- 

 tain. Behold! there was a blind man, with a bag net, sitting on a 

 platform at the foot of the mountain. When they came near, Nalq 

 said, " I will touch his bag net, and see what he is going to do with it . " 

 He touched the net, and the blind man pulled it up quickly. When 

 he had hauled in his net, he said to himself, "Oh, dear! I have lost 

 Nalq." Thus he said. Then they laughed, because, the blind man 

 knew them. This blind person caught people, whom he ate. 



They traveled on, farther and farther away. After some time they 

 met a raccoon who was holding a little piece of wood in its mouth. 

 The youngest brother, Little Feather, killed the poor little raccoon 

 and threw it away from their trail. 



They went on and soon they came to a hut. Behold ! a middle-aged 

 woman came out and made them welcome. She invited them into 



