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desire shall come to pass, if thou shalt do thus the thing that I myself 

 require, that vei'iJy thou shouldst give to me thy life, that thou 

 shouldst give to me the flint ( = the power to freeze living things) . 



O'ha'ii' replying said, "Dost thou mean that thing which is 

 attached to the end of my arrow?" De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' replj'- 

 ing said, "It is another thing, verily. Verily I mean that thing 

 which is contained in thy body; that is the thing which I demand 

 that thou shouldst give to me." 



Then O'ha'ii' said, "Just that, too, shall come to pass." And now 

 then he opened wide his mouth and now out of his mouth came 

 forth a lethal weapon. It appeared like flint. Now De'hae°'hiyawa'- 

 'kho°' grasped it and he pulled on it and said, "Here perhaps is the 

 place where it should be broken off." Then O'ha'a' said, "Come, 

 therefore, do thou break it oft'." 



De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'', spoke, saying, "Thou mdeed ownest thy 

 life. So thou thyself shalt break it oft' and thou thyself also shalt 

 give it to me. Then and not before will the act be a discharge." 

 Then O'ha'a' indeed broke it off and gave it to him and said, "Now 

 the thing which thou desirest has come to pass." 



At that time then De'hae"'hiyawa"kho'" said, "Now I accept it. 

 Now, then, I myself, too, will give thee the thing for which thou didst 

 ask." At that time then he plucked off from his roast two grains of 

 corn and he said, "One thou wilt eat; one, as to it, the grandmother 

 of us two will eat." Now he received the two grains and he departed 

 homeward. When he reached the place whence he had started he 

 said, "Oh, grandmother, it had not been possible that I should 

 have told thee. Now again I have been there where stands the 

 lodge of my brother. So now I bring back the kind of food that he 

 has prepared in the place where I have visited." Then he gave her 

 one grain of corn and he said, "That, it is said, thou thyself shalt eat; 

 one, too, I myself will eat." 



Then the old woman received it and she ate it and said, "Do thou 

 thyself eat it at once. This tastes good indeed." Then O'ha'a' in 

 his turn ate it. So at that time the old woman said, "Did it taste 

 good to thee?" He replied, saying, "It tastes exceedingly good." 

 His grandmother said the same thing also. Then at that tune she 

 said, "Thou wilt tell me at the time when agam thou dost notice 

 that he will again prepare food for himself. Then verily by all 

 means I will go there." Then O'ha'a' said, "Just that too shall 

 come to pass that thou dost desire." 



Now what De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' had planted produced fruit. 

 Now, too, he formed the bodies of the bluebird and robin and pine 

 martin, and he said, "Now I have finished your bodies. And I 

 have planted things for the pui-pose that ye shall breed here on the 

 earth; thus it is suitable that ye shall produce offspring." 



