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over, do not let your two minds be troubled. Do not let your minds 

 shrink from it, if it so be that you two will see that my brother and I 

 shall disagree. Now, indeed, it is plain that he and I will quarrel. 

 And the reason is that he desires that he shall control all things. 

 Moreover, I think that it should not thus come to pass. Now 

 I give you two possessory control over them. Now ye two will 

 travel about. Moreover, I will add to that which the island now 

 holds, if it so be that I will pass through the ordeal. Now, moreover, 

 I again go to seek his person." 



Then at that time he again went to the place where the lodge 

 stood. While nearing the lodge he saw there a pile of flint stones, 

 and now at that time he took them up and carried them, and then 

 he entered the lodge. Then he looked about from place to place. 

 O'hil'a' (Flint) was not yet at home. Then he (De'hae°'hiyawa"kho"") 

 placed the flint stones in the place where he (O'ha'a') was accus- 

 tomed to sit. Now at that time he again went out. Outside of the 

 door he there met O'ha'a' (Flint). Now at that time De'hae^'hiya- 

 wa"kho'" said, "I have been inside of the lodge. No one is at home 

 and I have seen no one." Then O'ha'a' (Flint) said, "Moreover, is 

 not my Grandmother at home? She was at home, indeed, when I 

 departed." Then De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' said, "Let us just go indoors. 

 Thou wilt see that no one is at home." At that time then they two 

 again entered the lodge, and then he looked from place to place 

 seeking her person. He saw her in no place, and then he went there 

 to the place where he customarily sat, and he arrived there, and he 

 was surprised that thereon lay several flint stones, and then he re- 

 tired therefrom and stood again at the doorway and he said, "Now, 

 verily, too, in reference to her, my Grandmother has turned against 

 me; now she has forsaken me. It matters not that one should kill 

 me, and also that one should make me a prisoner. And now all the 

 man beings have turned against me. It must needs be that now 

 I must defend myself. I will just attempt also to bring it about 

 that I shall control ever all things, no matter whether I shall become a 

 slave." Then De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' said, "Moreover, what manner 

 of things is done that thou shouldst think that now all have turned 

 against thee? Personally, my mind is not of that turn that thou 

 and I should contend in our affairs; personally, I am aiding thee; I 

 desire that it should be peaceable here upon the earth and on the 

 earth that exists above." 



Then O'hii'a' (Flint) said, "Moreover, what manner of thing is the 

 reason then that it is thus here on the earth, that one has already 

 made such preparations that one should destroy me? Do thou look, 

 verily, how the place is where I am accustomed to sit, that there one 

 has laid several things that will be able to kill me. Moreover, it is 

 thus no matter in which direction I go, I continually see the things 



