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Then he, in turn, put the cedur bark to hi.s breath. And he went out, 

 and Sawail'xa puUed out the thinjj- that had becyi stuck in and pushed 

 iiis ill. Then he went to bed. The next daj^, after he had given them 

 some food, he took a bath. Afterward he became sick. He said that 

 his back and his head were sick. "I must have done it to myself." 

 Presenth" he was dead. That was Greatest Wizard, they say. Then 

 they went oti'. They came to their house. 



By and by they started traveling- again. Tiiey hunted birds. Then 

 one disappeared. It went on that way until all were gone. He who 

 had medicine in his mouth let himself be last. He followed the foot- 

 ])rints of his elder brothers. When he saw his elder brothers sitting 

 upon a broad stump he did not feel how ho got there, but he was 

 sitting among them. 



Tiicn they l)roke thcii' bows and arrows in })ieces on top of it, and 

 tiiey built a tire. And, after they had put them into it, they lay at once 

 on the level ground l)elow. Then they also put themselves into it and 

 stood below. '■'■ It was North who did this to them. Then they went 

 home. They came to their house. 



\Mien they had traveled al)outawhile after that they found a moun- 

 tain of ground hogs. They built a house there and made dead falls'*^ 

 for them. When cold weather began to come on they came out. They 

 made trousers out of ground-hog skins. 



And, after they got l)ack there, the next to tiie youngest could not 

 catch an}" ground hogs in his "dead falls. He did not kill, even one. 

 And, when they went home, he refused to go. Each gave him two. 

 He refused them. Each oti'ered to give him five. He also refused 

 those. Then they left him. 



After he had lived there for a while a woman came to him one night 

 and lay down, and he married her. Then she asked him why he did 

 not succeed in taking them in dead falls, and he said to her: "'1 could 

 in no way get them."" "To-morrow make ten" [she said]. And next 

 d;iy he did as ho was directed. The day after he went out to look at 

 tiuMii. Ten ground hogs were in them. 



And, after he had done this for a while, he had many, and early 

 one morning he went to see them. Then a whitish one went in before 

 iiini. His wdfe told him not to put a dead fall near it. Then he 

 longed for it and set one in front of it. The very next day it fell on 

 it. And he feared his wife and hung it on the outside of the house. 



But, even from where his wife sat, [she saidj: "My mother says, 

 •Alas! my child.""' At once she started of!'. He tried to hold his 

 wife. He could not. When she got to the dooi' she said: "'"Come 

 to life again."* Immediately they began riiiuiiiig oH' in a crowd. He 

 tried to club them, and he ti'ied to stop them at the door. He could 

 not accomplish tiiat, (Mther. Then he went along among them. After 



