44 THE SIA. 



wife was augry and said, "You tell au imtruth." She gave them a 

 bowl of food, which was, however, only the scraps left by her children. 



In a little while the Sun returned home. His wife was very indig- 

 nant; "I thought you traveled only for the world, but these children 

 say you are their father." The Sun replied, "Tliey are my children, 

 because all people are my children under my arm." This satisfied the 

 wife, even though the children appealed directly to the Sun as father. 

 When he saw the boys were eating scraps, he took the bowl, threw out 

 the contents, and had his wife give them proper food. He then called 

 one of his men who labored for him, and said, "Build me a large fire 

 iu the house," designating a sweat-house, " lined with turkis, and heat 

 it with hot rocks," the rocks being also turkis. He sent the children 

 into this house and had the door closed upon them. The Sun then or- 

 dered water poured upon the hot rocks through an opening iu the roof, 

 but the children cooled the sweat-house by spitting out tiny shells from 

 their mouths. 



When the Sun ordered the door of the sweat-house opened he was 

 surprised to find the children still alive. He then had them cast into 

 another house, which was very large and filled with elk, deer, antelope, 

 and buffalo; he peeped through an opening in the wall and saw the 

 boys riding on the backs of the elk and deer apparently very happy 

 and contented. He then had them placed in a house filled with bear, 

 cougar, and rattlesnakes, and he peeped in and saw the children riding 

 on the backs of the bear and cougar and they were hajipy and not 

 alxaid, and he said, "Surely they are my children," and he opened the 

 doors and let them out, and asked, "My children, what do you wish of 

 me?" "Nothing, father," they replied, "We came only to find our 

 father." He gave to each of them a bow and arrows, and to each three 

 sticks (the rabbit stick), which he told them not to use until they 

 reached home for if they threw one, intendingit only to go a little way it 

 would go vei'y far. When they had j)roceeded on their journey but a 

 short distance Ma'asewe said to U'yuuyewe, "Let us try our sticks and 

 see how far they will go;" but U'yuuyewe refused, saying, "No; our 

 father told us not to use them until our return home." Ma'asewe con- 

 tinued to plead with his younger brother, but he was wise and would 

 not yield. Finally Ma'asewe threw one of his, and it was going a great 

 distance off, but he stopped it by throwing shells from his mouth. 



The mother and grandmother were delighted to see the boys again, 

 and happy for all to be under one roof, but the boys, particularly 

 Ma'asewe, were soon anxious to travel. They wished to try the bows 

 their father had given them, and after they had been home four days 

 they started on a hunt. The mother said to the boys: "Children, I 

 do not wish you to go far; listen attentively to what I have to say. 

 Away to the east is a lake where many skoyo and their animal com- 

 panions live and when the sun is over the middle of the world these 

 people go to the lake to get water. They are very bad people and you 



