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have come for, I know, but if even those ahead could not say any- 

 thing to you, how can I, the very last, say anything?" 



Then he saluted him and went out in the same way that he went 

 in. He started for his house and came there crying, it is said. "My 

 aunts and uncles must not die!" "To all things death will come," 

 he thought. Then he cast his thoughts upon the precipices and 

 they began to fall, to crumble. Upon the rocks he cast his thoughts 

 and they crumbled. Under the earth he cast his thoughts and all 

 beings that were living under the earth stopped moving and their 

 limbs stiffened (in death). 



Up above also he cast his thoughts and the birds began to fall 

 down (dead). 



Then when he entered the house he took his blanket and wrapping 

 himself in it, lay down crying, it is said. "Not the entire earth 

 will suffice for us," he thought, "and in some places there will not 

 even be enough earth. " 



After a while the news reached our father. "To utterly destroy 

 us they will try" (the people were saying). That Hare was not 

 feeling well, was the news that reached him. Then he (Earthmaker) 

 said to the first man he had created, "Hare is not feeling well and 

 you are to go after him." Toward the earth he came. "Hare, I 

 have come here to fetch you." But he did not answer him and 

 he did not even move his blanket. So the man (Foolish-One) 

 returned. Then he (Earthmaker) said to the second one, "Hare 

 you are to go after and bring him back here. Try very hard to 

 (accomplish) it, for he is not feeling well." When he arrived there 

 (he said), "Hare, I have come after you to take you back." But 

 Hare did not even (answer). When he returned, he said, "Hare 

 did not say anything." (Then to the third one he said), "Hare 

 you are to go after, for he is not feeling well. " Wlien he came (to 

 where Hare was, he said), "Hare, I have come after you, to take 

 you home." But Hare did not even answer him. Hare was indeed 

 not feeling well. 



Then he (Earthmaker) told the fourth one, "You are to go after 

 Hare. Be sure and bring him. Be sure and bring him. Try with 

 all your strength." "No matter how hard it is, I will bring him" 

 (said the fourth one). He started out and when he came to Hare 

 (he said), "Indeed, for a very long time has your heart been sad, 

 Hare. But let us go home now. Get up!" Then he took him back, 

 it is said, to Earthmaker he took him. But not to Earthmaker 's 

 house did he take him, but to that opposite where the chief of the 

 Thunderbirds lived. At his side, there they placed him. In front 

 of the Thunderbird chief's (house) there was a mound and also a 

 little war club painted red on one side. Thunderbird chief took 

 the little war club and holding it lightly, shook it gently. So great 



