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After the repast tbey thanked her, saying, "It was very good." Then 

 Ma'asewe said, "You, woman, and you, man," addressing her husband, 

 "you and all your family are good. We have eaten at your house; 

 we give you many thanks; and now listen to what I have to say. I 

 wish you and all of your children to go oif a distance to another house ; 

 to a house which statids alone; the round house off from the village. 

 All of you stay there for awhile." The boys then left. After they had 

 gone the woman drank from the bowl whicli they had used, and, 

 smacking her lips, said to her husband, "There is something very sweet 

 in this bowl." Then all the children drank from it, and they found the 

 water sweet, and the woman said, "Let us do the will of these boys; 

 let us go to the house;" and, the husband consenting, they, with their 

 children, went to the round house and remained for a time. 



Ma'asewe ami U'yuuyewe lingered near the village, and the people 

 were dancing in the plaza and feasting in their houses, when suddenly 

 they were all transformed into stone. Those who were dancing, and 

 those who sat feasting, and mothers nourishing infants, all were alike 

 petrified ; and the beings, leaving these bodies, immediately ascended, 

 and at once became the piiionei'o (Canada jay). The boys, returning to 

 their home, said, "Mother, we wish food; we are hungry." Their 

 mother inquired, "Why are you hungry; did you not get enough at 

 thefeast?" "No; weare very hungry and wish something to eat." The 

 mother again asked if it was not a good feast. "Yes," said Ma'asewe, 

 "but we are hungry." The mother, suspecting something wrong, re- 

 marked, "I am afraid you have been bad boys; I fear you destroyed 

 that village before you left." Ma'asewe answered "No." Four times 

 the mother expressed her fears of their having destroyed the village. 

 Ma'asewe then confessed, "Yes; we did destroy the village. When 

 we went to the feast at Oraibi we were all day with hungry stomachs, 

 and we were not asked to eat anywhere except in one house." And 

 when the mother heard this she was angry, and Ma'asewe continued, 

 " And this is the reason that I destroyed the villlage," and the mother 

 cried, "It is good! I am glad you destroyed the people, for they were 

 mean and bad." 



When the boys had been home but two days their hearts told them 

 that there was to be a great dance of the Ka'*suua at a village located 

 at a ruin some 18 miles north of the present pueblo of Sia. The Ti'ii- 

 moni of this village had, through his officials, invited all the people of 

 all the villages near and far to come to the great dance. Ma'asewe 

 said to his mother and grandmother (the spider woman), "We are going 

 to the village to see the dance of the Ka"suna." They replied, "We 

 do not care much to have you go, because you, Ma'asewe and U'yuuy- 

 ewf , are both disobedient boys. When you go off to the villages you 

 do bad things. At Oraibi you converted the people into stone, and 

 perhaps you will behave at this village as you did at Oraibi." Ma'a- 

 sewe replied, " No, mother, no ! We go only to see the Ka'*suna, and 

 we wish to go, for we know it is to be a great dance; we wish very 



