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sister, and after a warm greeting she invited her to be seated. Now'uts6t 

 had a picture which she did not wisli tlie sisters to see, and she covered 

 it with a blanket, and said, " Guess what I have here?" (pointingto the 

 covered picture) " and when you guess correctly I will show you." " 1 

 do not know," said tTt'set and again the elder one asked, "What do 

 you think I have here?" and the other replied, "I do not know." A 

 third time tJt'sgt was asked, and replied that she did not know, add- 

 ing, "J wish to speak straight, and I must therefore tell you I do not 

 know what you have there." Then Xow'utset said, " That is right." 

 After a while the younger sister said, " I think you have under that 

 blanket a picture, to which you will talk when you are alone." "You 

 are right," said the elder sister, "you have a good head to know 

 things." Now'iitset, however, was much displeased at the wisdom dis- 

 played by 0t's6t. She showed the i)icture to tJt'sfit and in a little 

 while tlt'sCtleft, saying, "I will now return to my house and no longer 

 travel; to-morrow you will come to see me." 



After the return of Ut'set to her home she beckoned to the Chas'ka 

 (chaparral cock) to come to her, and said, " You may go early to- 

 morrow morning to the house of the sun in the east, and then follow 

 the road from there to his home in the west, and when you reach the 

 house in the west remain there until my sister comes to my house to 

 talk to me, when I will call you. " In the early morning the elder sister 

 called at the house of the younger. "Sit down, my sister," said the 

 younger one, and after a little time she said, "Let us go out and walk 

 about; I saw a beautiful bird pass l)y, but I do not know where he 

 lives," and she pointed to the footprints of the bird upon the ground, 

 which was soft, and the tracks were very plain, and it could be seen 

 that the footprints were in a straight line from the house of the sun in 

 the east to his house in the west. "I can not tell," said the younger 

 sister, "perhai)s the bird came from the house in the east and has gone 

 to the liouse in the west; i)erhaps he came from the house in the west 

 and has gone to the house in the east; as the feet of the bird point both 

 ways, it is hard to tell. What do you think, sister?" "I can not 

 say," replied the other. Four times tJt'set asked the question and re- 

 ceived the same reply. The fourth time the elder sister added, "How 

 can I tell ? I do not know which is the front of the foot and which is the 

 heel, but 1 think the bird has gone to the house in the east. " "Your 

 thoughts are wrong," replied the younger sister; "I know where the 

 bird is, and he will soon be here;" and she gave a call and in a little 

 while the Chas'ka came running to her from the west. 



The elder sister was mortified at her lack of knowledge, and said, 

 "Come to my house to-morrow; to-day you are greater than I. I 

 thought the bird had gone to the house in the east, but you knew where 

 he was, and he came at your call ; to-morrow you come to me." 



On the morrow the younger sister called at the house of the elder 

 and was asked to be seated. Then Now'iitset said, " Sister, a word 



