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Its flesh was to be their food. Then its body was gone entirely, | and 
the people here had been forgotten, where | it was being carved. 
There was no water there. Some one said: ‘Is that | in the water 
there its backbone?” When it was all done, they talked | among 
themselves. ‘What shall belong to these || people, because we killed 
it on their own land?” Then | they picked up the blood and scat- 
tered it. They | said: ‘This will belong to these people. | These peo- 
ple will be few. They will | not be many. They will not increase 
but they will always remain; || even if many make war against them, 
they can not be exterminated.” | Now it is finished. The end. | 
[No. 51. Told by Felix Andrew (recorded by Robert T. Aitken)] 
aay 51. THe Grant? 
There wasa town. One day | twomen, brothers, went out hunting. 
The two brothers were going along. The elder one | saw a bighorn 
sheep and shot it. He carried it down. Then toward | sunset he 
became hungry. He thought: ‘T’ll make a fire || and roast a piece of 
meat. When I have finished eating, | will hang up the meat and 
dry it.”’ | Then he threw a piece of the bighorn-sheep meat into the 
fire. When it was cooked, he ate it. | It was without taste. He 
thought: ‘‘T’ll cut a piece of my own body and [ll roast it in the 
fire.” | Then he cut a piece off of himself and threw it into the fire. 
When it was done, | he ateit. It tasted good. He cut off another 
piece and threw it into the fire and ate it. || After two days he had 
eaten himself entirely. Only his bones were left. | Then his younger 
brother went home, and the following morning he thought: “TI will 
go and | look for my elder brother.’’ He started and went along to 
the place where they had been hunting. | He arrived there and heard 
asound. He stood still | and listened. There was a hill. He heard 
the sound || from that direction. He arrived there and went up. <A 
little ways off | there was a fire. He went there, and he heard his 
elder brother making that noise. He was | saying: ‘‘Oh, I love my 
brother, and it will take me two days to eat him!”’ | Then he arrived 
there. The elder brother saw him andran after him. | Hestruck him 
with his intestines, and threw him down with them and killed him. | 
Those at home said they ought to look for the brothers. | The elder 
one’s wife started looking for them. The woman | went along. She 
heard asound somewhere. She went there, and she saw him from a 
little ways off | sitting down. He was saying: ‘‘Oh, I love | my son! 
It will take me two days to eat him.”” The woman went along behind 
a hill. || Something told her: ‘Stick sharp stones on your clothing. | 
He will strike you with his intestines, and the stones will cut them. | 
Then he will not be able to catch you.”” Then she stuck | stones on 
her clothing. She went nearer. Hestruck her, and his intestines 
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