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much to see it, and will not do as we did at Oiaibi." Finally, the 

 mother and grandmother said, "If you are satisfied to go and behave 

 like good boys we will consent." It was a long way off, and the boys 

 carried their bows and arrows that their father, the sun, had given 

 them. They had proceeded but a short distance from their home, when 

 the sun told them each to get on an arrow, and the fiither drew his bow, 

 shooting both arrows simultaneously, the arrows striking the earth 

 near where the dance was to occur. The boys alighted from their ar- 

 rows and walked to the village. Every one wondered how they could 

 have reached the village in so short a time. The boys stopped at the 

 door of a house and, looking in, saw many people eating. They stood 

 there awhile but were not asked in, and they passed on from door to 

 door, as they had done at Oraibi, and no one invited them to eat. It 

 was a very large village, and the boys walked about all day, and they 

 were very angry. Discovering a house a little apart from the village, 

 Ma'asewe said, "Let us go there," pointing to the house; "perhaps 

 there we may get food," and upon reaching the door they were greeted 

 by the man, woman, and children of the house, and were invited to eat. 

 The boys were, as befoi-e, disguised with the honey spread over their 

 bodies. After the meal Ma'asewe, addressing the man and woman, 

 said: "You and your children are the first and only ones to invite us 

 to enter a house and eat, and we are happy, and we give you thanks. 

 "We have been in this village all day and, until now, have had nothing 

 to eat. I guess the people do not care to have us eat with them. Why 

 did your tiamoni invite people from all villages to come here? He was 

 certainly not pleased to see us. You (addressing the man and woman) 

 and your children must leave this village and go a little way oft". It 

 will be well for you to do so." 



And this family had no sooner obeyed the commands of the boys 

 than the people of the village were converted into stone, just as they 

 were passing about, the Ka"suna as they stood in line of the dance, 

 some of them with their hands raised. It was never known what be- 

 came of the beings of the Ka"suna. Ma'asewe then said: "Younger 

 brother, now what do you think?" U'yuuyewe replied, "I do not think 

 at all; you know." "Yes," said Ma'asewe. "and I think perhaps I will 

 not return to my house, the house of my mother and grandmother. I 

 think we will not return there; we have converted the people of two 

 villages into stone, and I guess our mother will be very unhappy." 

 And again Ma'asewe said: " What do you think?" and U'yuuyew6 re- 

 plied, "I do not think at all; ycm, Ma'asewe, you think well." Then 

 Ma'asewe said, "All right; I think now I should like to go to see our 

 lather." "Well," said U'yuuyewe, "let us go to him." 



There was a great rainbow (Kash'-ti-arts) in ti'nia; the feet of the 

 bow were on the earth and the head touched the heavens. "Let us be 

 off," said the boys. They stepped upon the rainbow, and in a short 

 space of time the boys reached their father, the sun, who was in mid- 

 heavens. The bow traveled fast. The sun saw the boys approaching 



