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arise, then also it matters not that she continue to sleep always."' 

 Then at that time De'hae"'hiyawa"kho"' said, "Now I myself will 

 just go wandering about. I will go to divert my mind." Then at 

 that time he went out to go about from place to place. 



The Elder Woman made a difference between her grandsons sever- 

 ally in her love for them. She loved O'ha'a' exceedingly. And she 

 did not verily love De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°'. 



As soon as De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' went out the Elder Woman said, 

 "I have some provisions indeed, and now a small quantity indeed is 

 left. That, however, it will suffice that thou and I shall continue to 

 live; so then thou alone shall eat. And the reason that this shall 

 come to pass is that, behold, the quantity is small, the quantity of 

 our provisions is now small. I do not know whence I should obtain 

 any other when it will become exhausted. Verily, indeed, our situa- 

 tion is becoming more and more grave." 



Then O'ha'a' said, "It must needs be that I will make the attempt 

 in that I will go to seek for that upon which thou and I shall live." 

 At that time then his grandmother said, "It shall be that not until 

 thy brother go out that thou and I shall eat together, and that then 

 customarily the amount of it which is too much for us, that he will 

 have to eat when again he returns." Then O'ha'a' said, "Are you 

 not able then to make for me what people use, that I may use it to 

 hunt? For, so be it, at the present time, quite soon, animals of what- 

 ever shape they may be may go about." Then his grandmother 

 said, "A bow then I will make for thee and a good arrow." Then 

 verily she made for him a bow and an arrow. As soon as she com- 

 pleted the task she then said, "Do not thou lend it to thy brother." 

 Then at that time De'hae'"hiyawa"hko°' returned. And he saw 

 that his brother had a bow, and then he said, "Whence hast thou thy 

 bow?" Then O'ha'a' said, "My grandmother verily made it for me 

 and she gave it to me." Then at that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' 

 spoke, saying, "My grandmother, would you listen should I ask that 

 thou also make for me a bow and arrow?" Then his grandmother 

 said, "That is sufficient that you two will possesss one between 

 you." Then De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' said, "So be it." And he did 

 not say anything else. 



In a few days then O'ha'a' attached a flint to the end of his arrow. 

 And when he finished the task he said, "Now then I will awaken the 

 mother of us two; now verily it is a long time during which she has 

 been asleep." At that time then he went there Co the place where she 

 lay and thus he said, "Now do thou arise. If thou dost not arise I 

 will thrust thee through with my arrow." Now then he shook her 

 for a long time. Now then verily he thrust her through with his 

 arrow. Not again did she awake. Then at that time, in its turn, 

 he cut her throat, and he used his arrow to do it. And he laid the 



