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erying and still crying, refusing to be comforted, though all her friends 
joined her in the search, and promised to revenge her wrongs. 
Chief among her friends was her brother, Avwi’-na (the eagle), who 
traveled far and wide over all the land, until one day he heard a strange 
noise, and coming near he saw the tsd-a-vwits and U’ja (the sage cock), her 
husband, but he did not know that this large man was indeed the little 
boy who had been stolen. Yet he returned and related to I’-o-wi what 
he had seen, who said: “If that is indeed my boy, he will know my 
voice.” So the mother came near to where the tsd-a-vwits and U’ja 
were living, and climbed into a cedar tree, and mourned and cried con- 
tinually. Kvwi/-na placed himself near by on another tree to observe 
what effect the voice of the mother would have on U’-ja, the tsd-a-vwits? 
husband. When he heard the ery of his mother, U’ja knew the voice, 
and said to the tsd-a-vwits, “I hear my mother, I hear my mother, I 
hear my mother,” but she laugked at him, and persuaded him to hide. 
Now, the ¢sd-a-vwits had taught U’-ja to hunt, and a short time before 
he had killed a mountain sheep, which was lying in camp. The witch 
emptied the contents of the stomach, and with her husband took refuge 
within; for she said to herself, ‘Surely, J’-o-w? will never look in the 
paunch of a mountain sheep for my husband.” In this retreat they 
were safe for a long time, so that they who were searching were sorely 
puzzled at the strange disappearance. At last Kywi/-na said, ‘They are 
hid somewhere in the ground, maybe, or under the rocks; after a long 
time they will be very hungry and will search for food; I will put some 
in a tree so as to tempt them.” So he killed a rabbit and put it on the 
top of a tall pine, from which he trimmed the branches and peeled the 
bark, so that it would be very difficult to climb; and he said, “* When 
these hungry people come out they will try to climb that tree for food, 
and it will take much time, and while the tsdé-a-vwits is thus engaged 
we will carry U’-ja away.” So they watched some days, until the tsd-a- 
vwits was very hungry, and her baby-hearted husband cried for food; 
and she came out from their hiding place and sought for something to 
eat. The odor of the meat placed on the tree came to her nostrils, and 
she saw where it was and tried to climb up, but fell back many times; 
and while so doing Aw7/-na, who had been sitting on a rock near by and 
had seen from where she came, ran to the paunch which had been their 
house, and taking the man carried him away and laid him down under 
the very same ti-hd-pi from which he had been stolen; and behold! he 
was the same beautiful little babe that 1’/-0-wi had lost. 
And Kvwi/-na went off into the sky and brought back a storm, and 
caused the wind to blow, and the rain to beat upon the ground, so that 
his tracks were covered, and the tsd-a-vwits could not follow him; but 
she saw lying upon the ground near by some eagle feathers, and 
knew well who it was that had deprived her of her husband, and she 
said to herself, “Well, [ know Kvi/-na is the brother of I’-0-2i ; he is a 
