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tinished it, they played about on the floor planks of the house with it. 

 While the}' were still i)layino- dayliuht eame. And next day they also 

 played outside. The feather a«>ain floated about above them. Their 

 mother told them not to take hold of the feather. 



After they had played for a while the eldest, who was heedless, 

 seized the feather. His hand stuck to it. When he was pulled up he 

 turned into nmcus. After it had been stretched out five times the 

 end was pulled up. Another one seized it. He became a shaving. 

 After he had l)een stretched out Hve times he, too, was pulled away. 



Another one grasped it. He became a feather. After something had 

 pulled him up five times he also left the ground. Another one seized 

 it. He became a strip of cedar bark. After something had pulled 

 him up Ave times he also left the ground. And again one seized 

 it. He became mud. After he had been stretched out Ave times he 

 left the ground. And another seized it. The same thing happened to 

 him; and after this had gone on for a while they were nearly all gone. 



Then again one seized it. He became a wild crab-apple tree. He 

 was strong. And, while he was being stretched up, his sister went 

 around him. She sharpened her hands. "Make your.self strong; 

 [be] a man,'' she said to her brother. When he had but one root left 

 his sister climbed quickly up upon him. After she had rea(;hed the 

 feather, and had cut at it for a while, she cut it down. A string of 

 them fell down. 



He who had medicine in his mouth stood over his elder brothers. 

 Upon his elder brothers he spit medicine. Then they got up. And 

 the bones of those in the town who had been first pulled up lay around 

 in a heap. . He also spit medicine upon them. They also got up, and 

 the town became inhabited. 



They played with the feather. They went around the town with it. 

 By and b}^ it began to snow. Then they rubbed the feather on the 

 fronts of the houses of the town, and the snow was gone.^ After they 

 had done so for a while the snow surmounted the house. 



After some time a blue jay dropped a ripe elderberry through the 

 smoke hole. By and by the}' went out through the smoke hole. They 

 went to see Bill-of -heaven.*' 



After they had gone along for a while, they came to a djo'lgi ' walk- 

 ing around. Then he who was full of mischief tore the animal in 

 pieces and threw them about. After they had gone on some distance 

 from there, they came to a woman living in a big house. Her labret 

 was large. When she began to give them something to eat the 

 woman asked them: '*Was my child playing over there when you 

 passed ^ " And one said to her: '' No, only a djo'lgi played there. We 

 tore it in pieces, and we threw it around." "Alas! my child," said the 

 woman. " Door, shut 3'ourself.*'' Xo-6, it sounded. 



Then he who knew the medicine became a cinder, and he let himself 

 go through the smoke hole. When he got outside, "Smoke hole, shut 



