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"So now you, j'ou two human beings, and you, game animals, 

 now you shall see what will come to pass when the two sides come 

 to grips, when our bodies will sway ^^ to and fro rapidly, so you two 

 human beings will continue to have the story such as you two shall 

 see it; that will continue to be a saga, and the story will last as 

 long as the earth present here will last ; also on the side of your com- 

 ing posterity, they will learn the story, and still other marvelous 

 things which shall happen in the future during the time the earth 

 shall continue to be, will come. I believe that perhaps O'ha'a' will 

 be able to do very much, he will do abnormal things repeatedly, 

 and so the coming posterity of 3'ou two will see many fearful things." 



Now at that time his Grandmother and O'ha'a' arrived there. 

 Now at that time De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' said, "Verily, now the 

 set time has come. On this day now will be manifested on which 

 side fate will decline and fall, either on the side of the welfare of 

 human beings and of the game animals or on that side, the side 

 of their destruction, wherein all persons and things will be destroyed. 

 So now we two shall begin." 



At that time his Grandmother said, "So thus it shall come to 

 pass. M}' own bowl and my pits shall thou and I use. We two will 

 throw (them)." 



At that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' replied and said, "Even 

 I also will decide what shall so come to pass. That is, that I will 

 agree to it that thou and I will use thy own bowl, and that even 

 also, as to that, I will use, in the next place, the pits which are mine. 

 As to thj'self, thou shalt use, in the next place, those pits that belong 

 to thee; in the next place, this shall come to pass, only once shall thou 

 and I each throw the bowl; then at that time thy and my mind will 

 be satisfied when it will fall (in deciding) who it is who will be over- 

 thrown. Thou, it may be, shalt have the good fortune that toward 

 thee it will fall; possibly, it maj^ be that I shall have the good for- 

 tune, that in that event it will fall toward me." 



Now at that time the old woman said, "Now art thou then pre- 

 pared with the pits which thou wilt use?" Now at that time De'- 

 hae°'hiyawa"kho°' replied and said, "Just at once I too will get 

 them." 



Now at that time De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' started, and there at a 

 short distance he stood and he said, "Come, do you come hither, you 

 chickadees. There shall be six of you." Many of them came to 

 him as a flock. Now he spoke and said, "Now, verily, the time 

 has come that I appeal to you that you shall assist me, and that is, 

 that my dear grandhiother and I are going to bet. And we two 

 will lay down as the wager whatever grows of itself on the earth 

 here present, and in the next place the game animals, and in the 



See note on p. 610. 



