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it in his hand. He had a quivor on his ))a('k. He had dancing leg'- 

 gings. He had a gabh^-crovvned hat. He did notsa}' a word. *' What 

 are you going to do if you marry my (hiughter?" He took a heav}' 

 step with his right foot. The earth craeked. "Stop! stop! great 

 chief, you are the one." Then the eartli closed again. "Indeed, 1 

 thought that you had your daughter for me." 



He took off his hat. He hiid aside his quiver. He started off with 

 only two arrows and his bow. He rolled a grizzly bear down from a 

 steep place with his foot. There he also rolled down a deer and a 

 beaver. Again he started off. He brought a post out on his shoulder. 

 He put it into the ground, and without waiting, pulled it out. He 

 went to the other side and did the same thing there, also toward the 

 door, and on the other side. There he let it stay. 



Again he went off. He l)rought out a wall post. In the rear of 

 the house he stuck it in, in the other corner, on the side toward the 

 door, in the corner opposite to that. 



He went off'. He brought out a stringer. He put it up and, after 

 he had moved it backward and forward a while, he took it over to the 

 other side. He put it up on the wall posts, too, and on the opposite 

 side. There he let it stay. 



Again he went off. He brought a plank out on his shoulder. He 

 set it up on edge above the side opposite the door, and he rolled it 

 over. By doing this again and again he completed half [of the roof]. 

 He did the same to the other half of the roof. He tilled up that, too. 



Again he went away. He brought out a wall plank. He stood it 

 up, shoved it along, and one side of the front was tilled. He treated 

 the other side and the side opposite the door in the same way. He 

 treated both sides of the house in the same wa^'.^" 



The house was finished. He went away. He brought two white 

 rocks. He rubbed them against each other and laid them down 

 under the smoke hole. The tire l)urned continually. It was never 

 extinguished. 



After that his mother-in-law kept cutting up and bringing in moun- 

 tain goats and grizzly bears. Afterward she cooked them. He took 

 his (piiver and his bow. He put on his hat, took up his wife, and 

 went awaj^ with her. He was the son of One-who-goes-along-above 

 (i. e., the moon). 



After he had lived with .her in his father's house for a while he had 

 a child by her. She bore a boy. Again she gave birth to a boy. 

 [She gave birth to eight.] Again she gave birth. She gave birth to 

 [two] girls. The eldest son was called "Puncher" (X.Atagi'a).^' The 

 youngest girl was called " One-who-sucks-arrow-points-f rom-wounds." 

 The next one he named "One-who-heals-the-place-where-the-arrows- 

 strike." His grandfather called the eldest ))oy to him, took out his 

 bones, and put stones in in place of them, He tilled up all parts of his 

 body with stones. 



