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wife." "You can bring her. 'The one greedy for people is taking 

 a person,' the people here said to him as he went," said the Blue 

 Butterflies. He was fed blue cornbread and blue boiled beans. 

 After he had eaten he again followed the tracks of the Giant. 



At last he came to the liome of the Giant. As he entered the 

 house he found his own wife in the house. "My wife, what are you 

 doing here?" he said to his wife. "While I was washing at the 

 river the Giant came and put me into his packbasket and brought 

 me here. The Giant is there in his estufa," said his Mdfe to him. 

 "Very well," said S^i]gerepove'eng, "I will go down to the estufa 

 and you can be getting ready. After I kill him, we can go home." 



And then S^qgerepove'eng went down into the estufa, in where 

 the Giant was. Entering there he found the Giant lying leaning 

 asleep. "S^rjgerepove'eng, why are you entering here in my private 

 place? There is no living creature that comes around here. Not 

 even a little bird comes here," the Giant said to him. "Because 

 you have stolen my wife, that is the reason I have come to get her," 

 S^qgerepove'eng said to the Giant. "Very well," said the Giant, 

 "we will bet. The one that wins shall have the woman." "Very 

 well," said S^qgerepove'eng. 



The Giant took out a long pipe and said: "The one that fills this 

 estufa to the top with a cloud of smoke from the pipe shall win." 

 (PI. 44.) As he said this, he lighted his pipe. Then he began to 

 make the cloud of smoke from his pipe. But before the smoke 

 reached halfway up the estufa his tobacco burned out from his pipe. 



Now S^qgerepove'eng's turn came. He began to spit on his pipe 

 with the earsticks that the Old Woodrats had given him, and began 

 to put tobacco into it. His pipe was not larger than his little finger. 

 "Wu, you could not do half as well as I did. The smoke of your 

 pipe will never reach the ceiling, because your pipe is too small. 

 Even my pipe, large as it is, did not get half way. Now I am going 

 to win the woman from you." S^qgerepove'eng then lighted his 

 pipe and began to make a cloud of smoke. Slowly it rose halfway. 

 In a short time it reached up to the roof-hole. "I think you must 

 have more power than I," said the Giant to him. "But you have 

 not defeated me yet. Now we shall see. ^Vlloever comes out safe 

 shall have the woman." 



Then the Giant took a bag of obsidians from a shelf hole m the 

 wall and said: "Now this will cut you to pieces. And so it will be 

 your turn this time. The one that comes out alive from this estufa 

 shall have the woman. You are to stay in here first." "Very 

 well," said S^qgerepove'eng. He spit on himself with the earsticks 

 which the Old Woodrats had given him. The Old Giant started t(i 

 burn the obsidians and went outside. The obsidians began to 

 explode in the estufa like a gun. "Now those will cut S^qgere- 



