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Now then again De'hae"'liiyawa"kho°' shot another arrow, and 

 the arrow became fixed in the body of a moose. So then he said, 

 "Do thou run. Do thou go there to the place where stands the 

 lodge of my dear grandmother." Now at that time it ran, and there 

 beside the lodge its body fell. 



Now at that time De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' again shot another arrow, 

 and the arrow became fixed in the body of a wild duck. So now 

 De'hae""hiyawa"kho°' said, "Do thou fly. Go there to the place 

 where stands the lodge of my dear grandmother," So now it flew, 

 and its body fell there beside the lodge. 



Now at that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho'" said, "Now, perhaps, 

 that is verily sufficient." So now he started away and he went 

 there to the place where stood the lodge of his grandmother. 

 As soon as he entered his grandmother said, "A wonderful thing 

 has taken place. And that is that thy brother has been away to 

 hunt game. Look thou at the kind of body that he has killed and 

 brought back." Then De'hae°'hiyawa"kho''' looked and said, 

 "That verily is what is called a porcupine. Verily O'ha'a' has been 

 to the place where no kind of game goes about. Behold this, I myself 

 have been out himting. Ti'uly game animals abounded ui the place 

 where I myself have been." 



Now again he spoke and said, "So now I will dress-' the game, as 

 many as I have killed." Now at that time he again went out-of- 

 doors. Now verily he began to skin them. He finished them; now 

 in tm-n he cut their bodies up, and when he fmished he then hung up 

 the several pieces of meat, and the hanging pieces of meat extended 

 all around the lodge. Now at that time he brought the skins into 

 the lodge, and so he smoothed out each separate skin. Now he fas- 

 tened them severally. He usually fastened it against the bark side 

 of the lodge, and he went entirely around the inside of the lodge. 

 At that time he spread one skin over the place where his grand- 

 mother had her bed, and another, too, he laid there. 



Now De'hae'''hiyawa"kho°' said, "Oh, my dear grandmother, now 

 verily has been fulfilled the whole matter, the kind of thing verily I 

 promised. I have promised thee; so now I have completed it. So 

 thou shalt be the first that shall have pleasure of mind continually 

 from the Idnd of things that the earth here present will continue to 

 contain for that purpose. And human beings will be born here on 

 this earth, and they shall control the game in it, and their minds 

 shall be continually consoled by the things which the earth shall 

 continue to contain. So now I ordain that in the future time 

 when you two use up this which I have left here in the lodge of you 

 two, then verily you two shall help yourselves that you two shall 

 continue to think in peace." 



See note on p. 609. 



