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suddenly surprised that De'hae"'hiyawa"kho'" was making for him- 

 self many arrows. Then O'ha'a' said, "For what purpose art thou 

 going to use the extremely many arrows which thou now hast?" 



Then at that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' answered, saying, "For 

 that purpose verily I am making myself ready that just there soon 

 now the game animals will in truth become abundant here." Then 

 O'ha'a' said, "Whence then is the place from which they shall come, 

 as you continue to say that the game animals will become abundant? 

 I myself do not see that the game animals go about anywhere." 

 Then De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' spoke saying, "It must be the fact that, 

 as is Imowm, in some place all those that habitually go about on dry 

 upland go from place to place." Now at that time then O'ha'a' 

 went home. 



As soon as he returned to the place where the bark lodge of the 

 two stood, he said, "Oh, grandmother, I visited the place where 

 De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' abides, and there I saw him making many 

 arrows for himself. He is preparing himself, he says, ' For soon now 

 the game animals will become abundant.'" 



Some time thereafter the Old Woman spoke, saying, "Just now also 

 thou shouldst fetch meat, for now it has verily become exhausted 

 for us." Now then O'ha'a' started out and went there to the place 

 where was the cave. As soon as he arrived there he then moved 

 away the rock lying there with which he had closed up the (mouth 

 of the) cave; so then he entered therein and there inside he killed a 

 game animal. Then at that time he came forth again and then he 

 fixed it again, he again closed up the (mouth of the) cave. Then at 

 that time he went home bearing by the forehead strap a deer. As 

 soon then as he returned he said, "Oh, grandmother, now verily the 

 wish thou didst express has been fulfilled." 



The Old Woman replied, "It is for us to be extremely thankful. 

 Verily, the game animals have now become most convenient to us." 

 Thus it continued to be for some length of time. 



Now at that time De'hac'"hiyawa"kho''' became aware that the 

 game animals did not go about any more in any place. So then 

 again he went there to the place where stood the lodge of the man 

 whose name is Hao^'hwendjiyawa'k'ho"'.-^ As soon as De'hae"'- 

 hiyawa"kho'" arrived there he said, "I do not know what thing, it 

 may be, has happened to, has befallen, the bodies of the animals, the 

 game animals; all those whose bodies I finished do not in any place 

 go about." Then at that time the man, Hao^'hwendjiyawa'k'ho"', 

 said, "I know the place where they abide away. They are shut in, 

 indeed; there is a cave in the earth and there away they abide. It 

 is that thy brother, O'ha'a', who has outwitted thee. So now I 

 will tell thee of the place where away abide the game animals. That 



See note on p. 609. 



