54 MYTHOLOGY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
he pretended to be eating something, and enjoying it with great gusto ; 
so they asked him what it was, and he said it was something very sweet, 
and they begged that they might be allowed to taste of it also. “ I will 
throw it up to you,” said he; ‘come to the brink and catch it.” When 
they had done so, he threw it up so that they could not quite reach it, 
and he threw it in this way many times, until, in their eagerness to se- 
cure it, they all crowded too near the brink, fell, and were killed. 
“Aha,” said he, “you were killed by your own eagerness. I am on my 
way to kill the Sun. A/-nier ti-tik’-a-ntimp kaiwk-ai'-gar.””. And sound- 
ing the war-whoop he passed on. 
The following day he saw two women fasiionshig water jugs, which 
are made of willow-ware like baskets and afterwards lined with pitch. 
When afar off he could hear them converse, for he had a wonderful ear. 
«Here comes that bad Ta-vwots’,” said they; “how shall we destroy 
him?” When he came near, he said, ‘“* What was that you were saying 
when I came up?” “Oh, we were only saying, ‘here comes our grand- 
son,” * said they. ‘Is that all?” replied Ta-vwots’, and looking around, 
he said, “‘ Let me get into your water-jug”; and they allowed him to do 
so. ‘+ Now braid the neck.” This they did, making the neck very small; 
then they laughed with great glee, for they supposed he was entrapped. 
But with his magic breath he burst the jug, and stood up before them; 
and they exclaimed, “ You must be a ghost!” but he answered, “TI am 
no ghost. Do you not know that jugs were made to hold water, but 
cannot hold men and women?” At this they wondered greatly, and 
said he was wise. Then he proposed to put them in jugs in the same 
manner, in order to demonstrate to them the truth of what he had said ; 
and they consented. When he had made the necks of the jugs and 
filled them with pitch, he said, ‘ Now, jump out,” but they could not. 
It was now his turn to deride; so he rolled them about and laughed 
greatly, while their half-stifled screams rent the air. When he had 
sported with them in this way until he was tired, he killed them with 
his magical ball. “Aha,” said he, “‘you are bottled in your own jugs. 
JT amon my way tokillthe Sun; in good time I shall learn how. A/-nier 
ti-tik’-a-niimp kwaik-ai'-gar.” And sounding the war-hoop he passed on. 
The next day he came upon Kvwi'/-ats, the bear, who was digging a 
hole in which to hide, for he had heard of the fame of Ya-vwots’, and 
was afraid. When the great slayer came to Kvwi/-ats he said, “Don’t 
fear, my great friend; I am not the man from whom to hide. Could a 
little fellow like me kill so many people?” And the bear was assured. 
“Let me help you dig,” said Fa-vwots’, that we may hide together, for 
I also am fleeing from the great destroyer. So they made a den deep 
in the ground, with its entrance concealed by a great rock. Now, Ta- 
vwots' secretly made a private passage from the den out to the side of 
the mountain, and when the work was completed the two went out to- 
gether to the hill. -top to watch for the coming of the enemy. Soon La- 
*This is a v ery common term of endearment used by elder to younger persons, 
