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Then at that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'" went to visit verily the 

 strange man iiis father in his lodge. When he arrived there the 

 owner of the lodge said, "Verily the disposition of thy grandmother 

 is malevolent. She will attempt, it is known, to spoil for thee what 

 now thou hast eommenced to make, what land of things the earth 

 here present shall contain. So I will tell thee what way thou shalt 

 act (in this matter). That when O'ha'a' will visit thy lodge that 

 thou shalt say, 'Wouldst thou not consent that thou and I should 

 exchange for this corn that which thou shouldst take from the sub- 

 stance of thy life and that thou shouldst give it me? ' Then he will 

 say, 'What thing dost thou mean?' Then thou wilt say, 'That, 

 veril^y, I mean the flint.' Then at that time he will say, as is 

 known, 'Is it that thou meanest the thing that is attached to the end 

 of my arrow?' Then thou wilt say, 'That thing I mean which is 

 contained in thy body.' Then at that time he will say, 'Certainly 

 it shall come to pass thus.' So thou shalt watch it come forth from 

 out of his mouth. As soon then as thou see'st it thou wilt seize it 

 verily and thou shalt pull it until thou think'st that perhaps it is 

 just as long as that which is fastened to the end of the arrow; so long 

 shall it be when thou shalt say, 'Do thou break it here.' If it so be 

 that he will say, 'Just also break it thyself,' do not thou consent 

 that tliou shouldst break it ofl^. It must be that he himself shall 

 break it off. Then at that time thou shalt receive it. That only 

 will make it possible that thou wilt be successful m what thou shalt 

 be doing, that he will not be able to spoil whatever thing thou wilt 

 make and he himself will not be able also to do just as thou art making 

 things. But nevertheless he will attempt to do those things and to 

 take control. He will not be able to do anything else when thou 

 thyself shalt possess vv^hat constitutes the substance of his life." 



Then at that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' again departed there- 

 from, and verily he returned again to the place where stood his bark 

 lodge. Then agam De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' set to work and he said, 

 "Here I will plant that which by itself shall be the first which my 

 grandmother will see when she comes here." 



Then he made it and he said, "Here then shall stand the shrub 

 which will be called the great fruit." ^^ Then at that time he said, 

 "Now I will rest; I will again prepare food before anything else." 

 Then at that time he again roasted ears of corn. Then O'ha'a' 

 again scented an odor and at once he went thither. He did not tell 

 his grandmother. 



When he arrived there he said, "Behold, wouldst thou consent 

 that I myself, too, might eat of the food which thou hast prepared? 

 One would think truly, perhaps, it would taste good." Now De'hae"'- 

 hiyawa"kho'" said, "It will be possible that the thing which you 



.See note on p. 609. 



