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toward the door. He was afraid. | Ya.uk"e’;ka°m was small, two 
years old. Then he was going to throw something, to throw || sleep 
into the‘old woman. Frog was sitting there, and did not sleep. | She 
became sleepy and lay down. She slept. | Then Ya.uk"e’;ka°m en- 
tered. He began to play. | He knew, for his mother had told him, 
how she was. He knew the belongings | of his mother. Then he 
played with themin the evening and went || back tohis mother. When 
he arrived, his mother said to him: ‘Why do you | come back? You 
ought to stay wh your grandmother.” Ya.uk"e’;ka’m said: | “I was 
afraid; that old woman looks terrible.’”’ | His parents laughed at him. 
They said to him: ‘Later you will love her. | All children like that 
old woman.’ Frog was asleep. || She arose and saw that the inside 
of her tent looked strange. :| She looked, and she found out a child 
had been there. She said: | ““Oh, my grandchild, my grandchild has 
arrived, and therefore I slept.’’ | 
In the morning Ya.uk"e’;ka’m started again, and Frog saw | the 
evidence of a child having been there. ‘‘Nobody knows whether || 
it is my grandson or my granddaughter.”’ Therefore she made a 
bow and | a little basket. She put them down. She thought: “I 
was asleep | when he came in. If I should go to sleep again, when | 
he comes back I’ll know what it is.’ That was the reason why | she 
made the two kinds of toys. Frog was || sleepy. She lay down and 
slept. Again | Ya.ukte’;ka‘m came in. Therefore she went to sleep 
again. | Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m entered. He looked, and there was the little 
bow and the little basket. | He ran for the little bow. She had also 
made two figures of deer (of grass). | Then he took the little bow and 
went out. He shot | at the figure of the deer. When it was almost 
evening, | the figure of the deer was torn to pieces. He carried it in 
again and went back. Frog arose. | She looked at what she had 
made, and the little basket was hanging there. | The little bow was 
lying there. it was broken. Then she knew that her grand- 
child was | a boy. She said: ‘‘O grandson, grandson! He must 
have come while || I was sound asleep.’”? On the following morning 
she thought: “Even if I do | feel sleepy, I'll not go to sleep.” 
She mude a figure of a deer (of grass) and put it down. | She lay 
down. She thought: ‘Let me lie down again.” - There was | Ya.- 
uk*e’;ka‘m. He looked in, and the old woman was asleep. | He 
thought: ‘She is sleeping.’”?’ Then he entered. He took || the little 
bow and the figure of the deer. Then he carried | themout. He was 
about to play with them. Frogsaw him. His clothing was | bright 
red. The child was good-looking. She ran for him | and took him. 
She said to him: ‘O grandchild, grandchild!’ | He said to her: “Let 
me go!” Then Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m went out and ||shot at the figure. 
Frog had made an arrow | and the figure of a deer. Then | Ya.uk'- 
e’;ka‘m was seen by the old woman; and he staid there, on the pil- 
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