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pietail Boy recognized the person's voice that was speaking outside. 

 He said to hunself, "I believe my wife is doing ceremonies with the 

 Wizards, but I will follow her to-night. To-night I shall know." 

 Yellow Corn Woman, dressed up well, her hair well combed, went 

 out of the house. As soon as she had gone out, MagpietaU Boy got 

 out of bed, dressed up, and followed his wife. 



Yellow Corn Woman went southwest, walking fast as she went 

 along the trail. As the moon was shining, her moccasins looked 

 white as snow, as she came to the estufa of the Wizards. Magpie- 

 tail Boy watched his wife as she entered a place which was brightly 

 lighted. "I see that this is the place where this wife of mine has 

 been coming every night, doing ceremonies with the Wizards. But 

 I will hide myself under hcio." As he said thus he hid himself near 

 the roof-hole. He put himself under the roof-hole sticks. 



When he looked into the estufa the Wizards had it lighted up. 

 Shortl.y they began to prepare themselves for the ceremony. Some 

 took thek ej'es out, some took their noses off, some took their ears 

 off, some took then- legs off, and some even cut themselves in two. 

 They were all fixing themselves in various ways. After they were 

 finished drcssmg, they were told by their leader, "Now let us start 

 our ceremonj'." As he said thus they put a rainbow across the 

 estufa. Then they began to do their ceremony. As thej' tried to 

 climb the rainbow, they would fall back again. Their leader said to 

 them, "I believe there is a person near who is not our equal. Sup- 

 pose that one of you go out to see." And one of them went out to 

 look. He looked around among the bushes, but he could not see 

 anything, so he went back into the estufa again. "There is not a 

 human being outside," he told the leader. 



Then they again started to do their ceremony. They began to 

 climb the rambow. Again they fell back. They could not climb 

 the rainbow. "Stop for a moment," said the leader. "There must 

 be some human being near who is not our equal. That is the reason 

 that we have failed in doing our ceremony. Suppose we call the 

 Screech Owl, for he is the only one who can see, even in the dark." 

 Then they called the Screech Owl. "Screech Owl, we have called 

 you because you are the chief of the night, since you are the only one 

 that can see in the dark. You can even see a little ant very far in the 

 dark. You are the chief of the night. There is a human being 

 near who is not our equal, and that is the reason we have failed to 

 do our ceremony. So that is why we have called you here." "Hu, 

 hu," said the Screech Owl as he flew outside. He lighted around m 

 the weeds and bushes there, but he could not see a human being. 

 And as he was going into the estufa to report that he had not seen 

 anything, he noticed there at the roof-hole the tail of a wolf bide 

 sticking out through the roof-hole sticks. He then went into the 



