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hiyawa"kho"" said, "I myself in turn will ask thee what kind of 

 thing then would kill thee?" At that time then O'ha'it' said, "The 

 only thing that I myself fear is flint stone and the horns of the deer 

 kind. It is knowTi that these two things which I have told thee are 

 able to kill me." 



Now De'hae'"hiyawa"kho''' said, "That only is the sum of what 

 I have that I thought I should ask of thee." Then O'ha'a' went 

 home. 



Now as soon as he arrived where stood the lodge of the two, then 

 he said, "Oh, grandmother, it has come to pass in accordance with 

 my desires. It has now been revealed to me what kind of things he 

 uses in maldng the things he has planted and the game animals. 

 That, it is said, he used earth to make them." Then his grandmother 

 said, "Wliat kind of thing dost thou think of the many things that 

 he has told thee?" Then O'ha'ii' answered and said, "My opinion 

 is just this: I believe that perhaps all the things which he has now 

 completed is a great work. So I think that perhaps it would be an 

 easy matter for me to conceal ^^ the game animals so all would then 

 be under our o^vn jurisdiction." 



Then the old woman said, "\^niat thing wilt thou do that thou 

 wilt be able to conceal the bodies of the game animals?" Then 

 O'ha'a' said, "In the earth I wQl shut them up. Yonder near by, 

 near a mountain, there inside verily I will shut them up." 



Then his grandmother said, "Now as to myself I shall say nothing 

 more." Now at that time O'ha'a' went out and he went there to the 

 place where there was a mountain clifl". There he set to work and 

 there he completed a cavern for himself. Now at that time he 

 gathered together the bodies" of the game animals, driving them all 

 there. So therein he drove their bodies in the place where he had made 

 himself a cavern inside of the mountain clifT. So as soon then as all 

 had entered he placed a rock over the place where was the opening 

 into the earth. Then at that time he said, "Now I have shut them 

 all in. So only that is the amount of my work. Now I myself have 

 brought all under my control. Only there wUl I myself continue to 

 get what my grandmother and I will continue to live upon." And 

 then he went home. As soon as he arrived there he said, "Oh, 

 grandmother, now as to them I have shut in all the game animals. 

 So now thou thyself wilt decide the time customarily that thou 

 standest in need of meat. Only wilt thou customarily teU me, then 

 at that time I will fetch it." 



His grandmother said, "It is to be extremely thankful that now 

 verily thou and I have obtained provisions abundantly." 



Now at that time O'ha'a' again went there to the place where 

 stood the lodge of his brother. So he arrived there and then he was 



See note on p. 609. 



