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next place the human beings who come to stop on the earth. So 

 now I will use your heads." 



Now at that time they cried out and they sang; they perched 

 themselves along on his body. So then he began and he beheaded 

 them severally, six in number. Just then he returned to the place 

 where his grandmother went about. When he returned there he 

 said, "So now the matter will start. Thus it shall come to pass, 

 as is what thou desirest, that is, verily, when thou and I will throw, 

 • thou and I will throw the bowl only once each." Now at that time 

 he sat down on the ground. Then the old woman said, "I, verily, 

 will be the first to throw the bowl." So at once then she threw the 

 bowl and that came to pass that her luck turned out badly for (the 

 throw) summed nothing whatever. 



Now at that time De'hae°'hiyawa"khp°' said, "Come, do thou 

 take thy pits out of it. Now, verily, I at this time wiU place my 

 pits therein, now, until the fortune of whatever I have made will 

 become manifest. " 



Now at that time he placed his pits in the bowl and it came to pass 

 in such wise that one would believe that they were alive, as it were. 

 They ran ai'ound backward and forward in the bowl. So now 

 De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' said, "Listen, you whose bodies I have formed, 

 all now put forth your orenda that we together may win so that at 

 all events all you shall continue to live. " So then at once he threw 

 the bowl. Now at that time two things went together, there was 

 a loud noise, all the various kinds of animate life cried out, and all 

 things that grow on the earth. Then at that time his pits sang and 

 then they flew up, and they went up high there out of sight, and the 

 sound accompanied them. Now as to De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' and 

 his grandmother they put forth their orenda and they just rolled 

 about and they cried out repeatedly. Also he kept saying, "Let 

 there come afield." Also she kept saying on her part, "It lolls 

 nothing. " 



After the lapse of a sufficient time then they heard the birds 

 coming in the distance and now they were coming downward, now 

 they cried out continually in extremely loud sounds. Suddenly 

 now they again alighted there in the bowl, and he kept saying, 

 "Let there come a field. " The old woman on her part kept saying, 

 "Let three come together. " It was a very long time that it was not 

 possible for them to be still; they just ran about to and fro. Sud- 

 denly they now became still, and all became black. 



Then De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' said, "Verily I have put down a 



field. So now, my dear grandmother, I have answered your challenge. 



Now verily it is a long time during which thou hast been distressed 



(to know) what thing thou shouldst do that thou wouldst be able to 



strip my hands of all those things which I have completed. So 



