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have I hoard of such a thing as what you have told me. No, dear, 

 no! I do not believe what you have said." The young men dis- 

 pleased the old man, who said, "No, I won't go there! Nonsense, 

 nonsense! That is all. " They told him that the chief wanted him; 

 but he said, "No, I will not go. I am not well tonight. " Therefore 

 they went back to the chief's house, and they told him that Dis- 

 believer had made fun of them. (The people named the old man 

 Disbeliever because he did not believe what the people would tell him. 

 Therefore they gave him the name Disbeliever.) 



Therefore the great chief was enraged, and said, "Bring him in 

 quickly!" The young men went a second time; and while they were 

 on their way, they met him. They asked him, "Is that you, Disbe- 

 liever?" — "Yes, I was groping my way along." They took him by 

 the hand and led him into the house up to the chief and his wife. 

 As soon as the old man came in, the mourning woman took her child 

 on her back and went out unobserved. Now Disbeliever said, "Let 

 me feel of the bundle!" They took his hands and guided them to 

 where the bundle was. Nobody had touched it before, because they 

 were all afraid lest they should be consumed by the lightning. The 

 chief repeated the words that his wife had said to him. When the 

 old man felt of the bundle, he laughed again, and said, "I do not 

 believe that the leggings and snowshoes and moccasins of the ghosts 

 became a flash of lightning. I never heard of such a thing happen- 

 ing since the world began. No, no, no!" Then he opened the bun- 

 dle, took the leggings by themselves, saying, "Now, leggings, let a 

 flash of lightning proceed from you!" At the same time he struck 

 the ground with the leggings. He took up the pah of snowshoes 

 and struck the ground with them, and said, "Now, snowshoes, 

 burn! — Now, moccasins, let flashes of lightning proceed from you! 

 Oh, what nonsense!" 



The chief took a little comfort when the old man took up the 

 leggings. Then the old man put them on. He also put on the snow- 

 shoes, and leaped first before the chief, who was sitting by his side. 

 He struck the snowshoes one against the other, and ran around* the 

 fire that was burning in the center of the house. 



All of a sudden a flash of lightning proceeded from the leggings and 

 snowshoes and moccasins, and the house and all the people in it were 

 consumed. Not one escaped from it. 



The woman was sitting where the bodies of her brothers were; and 

 the supernatural being came to her again, and said, "Lay out the 

 bodies of your brothers in good order." She did so, and then the 

 supernatural being jumped over the eldest one first. He did so four 

 times, and the eldest one arose. The supernatural being stepped to 

 the second brother and jumped over him four times, then the second 

 brother arose; and the supernatural being did to the third one the 



