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and arrived at | the house, and already the stone had become a man. | 
When the stone saw him coming, it had changed its form, || and there 
was another stone there where they get it from, | which is used to hit 
(the flint). Those who pay | can take the stone. Then it is astone | 
from which they get arrow points and knives. For this reason | they 
pay for it; namely, that || the flint may not transform itself. When 
they do not pay, it turns into a man | who does not give his flesh. 
When Ya.uk"e’;ka°m entered, | the stone had already turned into a 
man. Flint thought: | ‘ Ya.uk'e’;ka:m is a chief; he will pay a great 
deal.” | Flint said: ‘“What do you want?” Ya.uk*e’;kam said: || “I 
want flint.” Flint said: 
stone. | Then you may take me.” Ya.uk%e’;ka‘m sat down. | He 
thought: “Vl fool him.” Then he went out. | He went to Diorite,! 
and said to him: ‘Flint says || you can not break him.” Diorite said: 
“You will pay for it. Then Pll become a 
“Oh, | Flint lies, Iam strong. I break him into big pieces | when I 
get angry. Why did he say so?” Ya.uk'e’;ka‘m went out. | He 
went back to Flint. He said to him: “Diorite | always says he will 
break you into big pieces.”’ Flint said: || “Oh, Diorite lies, he can not 
break me. | When I grease my body, I am strong.” Ya.uk"e’jka’m 
went out again | and came to Diorite. Hesaid to him: “Flint | says 
you can not break him. He says you arelying. When he | greases 
himself, then he is strong.’’ Diorite said: || ‘Go back and tell him . 
that Pll fight with him.” | Ya.ukte’;ka‘m went out again and said 
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to Flint: ‘‘Diorite says | you shall fight with him.” Then Diorite — 
took his knife, | and also Flint. They said: ‘Well, | let us fight!” 
They attacked each other and struck each other. || Oh, Flint lost. 
Big pieces of stone were coming off from him. | Then Ya.uk%e’;ka‘m 
took the flint and diorite. | He had much because they were fighting. 
Then | he took the flint and diorite and scattered them over | this 
world. He said: ‘‘Let flint and || diorite occur all over this world. 
For a long time people will be | here inthis world. It might be | diffi- 
cult for them to get flint and diorite.”’ | The friends were fighting. 
They did not know that | Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m had scattered the stones. 
When Ya.uk*e’;ka‘m finished doing this, || he told the friends: ‘Now 
stop doing this to each other. | I cheated you. You will not be | peo- 
ple any more when they come to get you. Now I have put an end 
1 Or some other tough stone. 
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