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"Hare, what I am doing, you also will be able to accomplish. 

 Try with all your power. If (the evil spirits) injure my creation, it 

 will not be good on earth, life will not be good." Thus he encouraged 

 him; thus he spoke to him. "Try and overcome these (evil spirits)." 



So Hare was sent to the earth, and when he came on earth he said 

 to liimseK, "My brothers acted in a (certain) way and failed." Hare 

 had come up to a certain oval lodge and from this (same) house came 

 a young woman with a little pail. She was going toward the river. 

 "Now they (Foolish-One, etc.), were not able to do (what I am going 

 to do)," he said. There he entered the body of the young woman in 

 order to become a human being. There he sat in the abdomen (of 

 the young woman) , yet he heard their (human being's) cry. 



He heard them crying. "My father sent me to give them advice, 

 and here, for so very long a time, I have been sitting." Crying, 

 slirieking, he heard them (the human beings). "So long have I been 

 sittmg here that (the evil spirits) will in the end destroy them." 

 Seven months had he been waiting when he spoke thus. Finally, 

 when the proper time had elapsed, he went out through an opening. 

 Not four days after, the woman died. 



He always left the house in which they lived, at night, and would 

 roam around. Whenever he walked mside the house he would 

 reflect much light. As soon as daylight appeared he became quiet, it 

 is said. As soon as the sun went down, he went out. He traveled 

 all around the earth, for its entire extent, and just before sunrise 

 returned and became quiet. Tlu-oughout the day he sat thinking 

 of all the work he was to do. 



For the third time he again started out, at sunset, and traveled 

 over half the extent of the earth, and all the bad spirits that were 

 growing wild he put an end to. " Not again will they (the bad 

 spirits) live; not for a secontl time will they kill any of my uncles or 

 aimts." Just before daylight appeared, he went toward the house, 

 and as he approached it, his heart felt good. Then he entered the 

 house and all day he sat there wrapped in thought. 



When the sun went down he went out and over to the very edge of 

 the earth, as large as it is, he roamed, and all the bad spirits that exist 

 he killed. Just about daylight he went up into the heavens and bang! 

 he pursued all the bad birds that were living there and driving them 

 together in the west, he killed them all. Very early in the morning 

 he went to the house thinking pleasant thoughts. "The work my 

 father sent me to do I have accomplished. The life of my uncles and 

 aunts will now be like mine, from now on." Thus he thought as he 

 entered the house. 



"Well, Grandmother, the work my father sent me to do, I have 

 accomplished. He sent me to look after his creation and all that 1 

 have accomplished. My uncles' and aimts' lives will hereafter be the 



