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outside every day and shot, and his arrows just gradually kept on 

 going farther. Finally, upon his fifth attempt, his arrows fell clear 

 to the end of the house. 



All this time he was watched on the sly from across (the river) . And 

 then the younger (brother) said: ''Why is it that yon (boy) is all 

 this time left alone? He will, perchance, become a (strong) man. 

 (Would) it not (be well) if some one went across and got the best of 

 him?" However, he was told: "Just keep quiet. Wlien after a 

 while he shall have grown a little bigger, then we will go across to 

 him." Then when .this orphan ceased his shooting, his grandmother 

 carried his arrows back into the sweat house. Thereupon she took 

 back into the house the knife, and after she came with it into the 

 house, she told her little grandson, "Here is the knife of thy fathers.". 

 Then he said to his grandmother: "Thou shalt Iry to stab me with 

 this Iviiife. Thou shalt just carefully do it to me." Thereupon, 

 veril}^, she tried it repeatedly every day. And then upon her fifth 

 attempt he told her: "Thou shalt do it to me now. Thou shalt not 

 be careful with me (any longer). Thou shalt just strike me hard 

 with this knife." Thereupon she did so, indeed. Wherever he was 

 standing, his grandmother would just jump at him there. She would 

 strike him with the knife; nevertheless she would not touch him 

 (even) a little, and he would right away stand agam (in) another 

 (place). Thereupon she would agam jump at him there and strike 

 him, but she would only hit the ground. Five times she tried it m 

 vain. Fmally she gave it up and said to him, "Now, grandson, 

 thou (art aU right); nobody is gomg_to do anything to thee." And 

 then she went with him to the sweat house and told him: "Here thy 

 fathers were habitually doing various things (by) themselves. Thou 

 shalt now begin to perform different deeds (by) thyself here." And 

 then that orphan found the pipe of his fathers and also their dentalia 

 shells and, moreover, their other (set of) gambling sticks. There- 

 upon he habitually slept there every night. The sweat house was 

 continually light by means of the quiver's teeth, because it seemed 

 to growl. And then every day he habitually went outside. He 

 always put on all his thmgs outside of his house. He carried on his 

 back his quiver and (on his side) he caused his knife to hang, while 

 across the shoulder he wore his tobacco pouch. 



Now when the younger (brother) from across (the river) saw him, 

 he said: "Is not anything going to be done to him ? He has become 

 a person now. Somebody ought to go across at once." Thereupon, 



