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After closing the door on the boys the woman went into her house 

 and bathed all over in a very large bowl of yucca suds, washing her 

 head first, and taking a seat she said to herself, "All is well. I am 

 most contented and happy." The boys were also contented. The 

 woman, thinking it was about time her supper was cooked, removed 

 the stone which she had placed in the doorway and secured with plaster. 

 The boys had secreted themselves in one side of the house, where they 

 kept quiet. What she supposed to be their flesh was i'isa (excrement) 

 which the boys had deposited there. The woman removed this with 

 great care and began eating it. (This woman had no husband and 

 lived alone.) She said to herself, "This is delicious food and cooked 

 so well," and again and again she remarked to herself the delicious flavor 

 of the flesh of the boys. Finally Ma'asewe cried, "You are not eating 

 our flesh but our i'isa," and she looked around but could see no one. 

 Then U'yuuyew6 called, "You are eating our i'isa," and again she 

 listened and looked about, but could see no one. The boys continued 

 to call to her, but it was sometime before she discovered them sitting 

 in the far end of the room. "What bad boys you are," she cried, "I 

 thought I was eating your flesh." The woman hastened out of the 

 house and tickling her throat with her finger vomited up the ofi'al. 



She again sent the boys for wood, telling them to bring much, and 

 they returned with large loads on their backs, and she sent them a 

 second time and they returned with another quantity. Then she again 

 built a fire in the small house and left it, and the two boys exclaimed, 

 "What a great fire!" and Ma'asewe called to the woman, "Come here 

 and see this fire; see what a hothouse; I guess this time my brother 

 and I will die ;" and the woman stooped to look at the fire, and 

 Ma'asewe said to her, " Look away in there. See, we will surely die 

 this time. Look ! there is the hottest point !" he standing behind the 

 woman and pointing over her shoulder, the woman bending her head 

 still lower to see the better, said, "Yes; the fire is best off there." 

 "Yes," said Ma'asewe, " it is very hot there;" and the Sko'yo was filled 

 with interest, and looked intently into the house. The boys, finally, 

 inducing her to stoop very low so that her face was near the doorway, 

 pushed her into the hot bed of coals, and she was burned to death. 



The boys rejoiced, and Ma'asewe said, " Now that the woman is dead, 

 let us go to her house." They found the house very large, with many 

 rooms and doors. In the middle of the floor there was a small circular 

 door which Ma'asewe raised, and looking in, discovered that below it 

 was very dark. Pointing downward, he said, "Though I can not see, 

 I guess this is the most beautiful room. I think I will go below ; per- 

 haps we will find many good things." As soon as he entered the door 

 he disappeared from sight and vanished from hearing. U'yuuyew6, 

 receiving no reply to his calls, said to himself, " Ma'asewe has found 

 many beautiful things below, and he will not answer me; 1 will go and 

 see for myself." After entering the door, he knew nothing until he 



