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erable and put him iuto the smoke. But we always gave him water; 

 we always gave him food. He has lost his eyes." 



After some time Blue-Jay thought that a chief must have arrived at 

 the house of the mice. He ran there to look and he found two chiefs. 

 Then he went back and said to his chief: " Two chiefs have arrived; 

 they stay at the house of the mice; they came to play with you." 

 "Oh," replied Blue-Jay's chief. He ran back [to the house of the 

 mice, and said to the strangers]: "Our chief wants to play with you. 

 You will have a shooting match." They did not say anything. Then 

 Blue- Jay ran back and said to his chief: "Go down to the beach!" 

 Three times Blue-Jay went back. But they did not speak to him. 

 When he went there the fourth time the younger brother looked at 

 him. He looked at Blue-Jay. At once all his hair began to burn. 

 Then he returned and told his chief, "O, these strangers are more 

 powerful than we are. They looked at me and my hair caught fire. 

 They tell you to come down to the beach." After a little while they 

 went down to the beach. Two targets were stuck into the ground. 

 [They said:] "How bad are these targets!" and they pulled them 

 out and threw them away. " Here, our targets are good." They put 

 their targets into the ground. Their targets were shining. Then 

 they began to shoot. Now Blue Jay's chief lost. He lost all his den- 

 talia. He lost all his people. They won their father from him. They 

 won Blue-Jay. Now they staked his hair and they won it. They 

 staked his head, they staked his arms. They won his head and his 

 arms. They staked his legs; they won it all. Then they took four 

 potentilla roots and put them on to the forehead [of Blue-Jay's chief]. 

 They took pieces of flint and put them all over his body. They took 

 green mud and painted his belly and his back green. Then they threw 

 him into the water, and said: "Green Sturgeon shall be your name; 

 henceforth you shall not make chiefs miserable." They took Blue- Jay, 

 threw him away, and said: "Blue- Jay shall be your name; henceforth 

 you shall not make chiefs miserable. You shall sing ' Watsetsetse- 

 tsetse,' and it shall be a bad omen." [Then they turned to the mice and 

 said :] "Oh, you pitiful ones, you shall eat everything that is good. You 

 shall eat berries." Then they took their father and carried him to the 

 water. They blew on him and he recovered his eyesight. Then they 

 returned home. 



