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they heard a noise as if some one were kicking, and pretty soon they 

 heard the boy say, "Now I have spUt hoofs already." Throughout 

 the day he refused to come out of his corner. At night he addressed 

 the old man, saying, "Old man, look out! I have horns now." 

 Then they became afraid of him and did not come near him any 

 longer. They kept away from him. On the fifth night they heard 

 him kickmg around and tramping the ground, and pretty soon they 

 saw him get up, looking like a natural elk. When they got up in 

 the mornmg, he was standmg in the shape of an elk. After sunrise 

 he tore the house dowai with his horns and as he left he hooked the 

 oldest brother and carried him off on his horns. The other people 

 pursued him, shooting at him with arrows, but he did not seem to 

 be hurt. Soon he turned on his pursuers and hooked another man, 

 leaving only three brothers. After a while he succeeded in hooking 

 another brother. Then the two remaining men began to cry, "That 

 Teii'lsa has killed our elder brothers." StiU they kept on pursuing 

 him, and as one of the remaining brothers was about to overtake 

 him he turned on him suddenly and hooked him with his horns. 

 This left only one brother, whose name was MoTuptsini'sla. Then 

 Mo'luptsini'sla kept on following him clear to Otter Rock. When 

 they arrived there, the boy who turned into an elk stopped and spoke 

 to his pursuer, "Why dost thou not shoot me m the heart so as to 

 kill me V Thereupon MoTuptsini'sla killed him. And while Teu'lsa 

 was dying he said: "Do thou cut off my ears and nose and eyes and 

 also all my smews and keep them." Then MoTuptsini'sla followed 

 these directions and put all those things into his quiver. 



Then MoTuptsmi'sla ascended the mountain and came to a village. 

 And when the people living in this village saw him they said: "Here 

 comes our brother-m-law." So he married one of the girls belonging 

 to that village and stayed there for a long time. One day his brothers- 

 in-law asked him to accompany them to the place where they were 

 usually working. So in the morning MdTuptsini'sla took his quiver 

 and went with his brothers-in-law. When they arrived at the place, 

 he looked around and thought: "So this is wliat they are doing? 

 They are gathering mussels." Then he helped them for a long time. 

 When the canoe was full, one of his brothers-m-law said, "Let us go 

 out farther!" So they went out farther into the sea mitil they came 

 to a rock. They left the canoe and climbed upon the rock, looking 

 for some more mussels. After a while his brothers-in-law said to 

 him, "Do thou wait here while we take these mussels to the canoe!" 

 Thereupon they left him. MoTui^tsml'sla waited for them a long 

 time in vain. Then he descended, but when he came to where the 

 canoe was, he found himself to be alone. He did not know how to 

 get back to the shore. He began to cry. After a while he remembered 

 what Teulsa told him prior to his death. So he took out the ears* 



