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he found that in every house the people, were all dead, their eyes 

 having been plucked out. 



So he went to his sister; and there he met his child, dragging along 

 the line full of the. eyes of the people. The child was dragging the 

 line along the street when he passed him. He went to his sister, who 

 had just given birth to a child, and saw that she was still alive. He 

 told her that their parents were dead, and, further, that all the people in 

 the village were dead. Therefore the young man asked her to leave 

 the village. His sister took up her own child, and they went along the 

 street. Again they met the child who was dragging along the street 

 the line with the eyes. He took up the child, ami threw away the line 

 with the eyes of the people. They went together on the trad behind 

 the house of the chief, which led to the lake. The prince shouted 

 four times, and, behold! the beautiful woman came up, and went 

 ashore to the place where the prince was standing. When she came 

 near him, he threw the child at her, and said, "Why didn't you take 

 notice to whom you gave your child? This child has kdled every- 

 body in my village." 



The woman stood there silent, and the prince and the princess 

 were crying. They remained there a little longer, and the woman of 

 the lake felt very sad. She spoke kindly to her husband and to her 

 sister-in-law. She said to her husband first, "Come to me, my 

 dear!" So the prince went near her, and she gave him gambling- 

 tools. She sent him away to the south, and said to him, "Go there! 

 You shall be richer than any one you meet." Then she gave him a 

 set of gambling-sticks. 1 



Then the young prince took them and went southward. He always 

 shook his gambling-sticks, and he always won, and became richer 

 than all his fellow-men, as the woman of the lake had said. 



She also called her sister-in-law to her, and gave her a garment of 

 wealth. She put around her an ever-new belt, and she put the 

 princess's own child on her back, and said to her, "Whoever meets 

 you, or whoever hears your child cry, shall be richer than any one 

 else." She sent her toward the northwest. The child was always 

 crying as she went along. Therefore it is that whoever meets her 

 becomes rich among the people. 



Now these two people parted. The young man went southward, 

 and the young woman went northward. Then the woman of the 

 lake took up her own child and went down to the bottom of the lake. 

 She. wept there, and at the end of her mourning-period she came up 

 with her child on her back. She went ashore and came down to the 

 seashore. There she stood on the beach and went into the salt water. 



1 These sticks they use up to this day. They split maple wood and make gambling-slicks, and they 

 make them pretty. Some gambling-sticks are made of bone, somo of maple. They are fifty or sixty in 

 number, and each one has a mark and a name.— Henry W. Tate. 



