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which one has laid up high that will kill me. And that, too, is the reason 

 that now one has carried elsewhere the Head of our Mother and that 

 my Grandmother, too, has now gone elsewhere. Moreover, now I 

 will do nothing fm'ther in response; now I will defend myself to the 

 end that I should live; verily, there is no one who could assist me. 

 Moreover, if it so be that I will be able to continue to live, I, too, 

 personally, moreover, will not assist anyone, nor will I have pity 

 on anyone. It will please my mind that I will control all things; at 

 some future day to come, or also at some future night to come, I will 

 use both the Daylight and the Darkness." 



Now at that time De'hae'"hiyawa"kho°' said, "Wliat manner of 

 thing is this here about which thou art disputing? There is nothing 

 wrong in this; everything is peaceable." O'ha'a' (Flint) said in replj% 

 "Verily, I am not pleased that all people look to you in all things. 

 No one is antagonistic to thee. That is what I mean. I will only 

 be pleased when I will control everything, and that too it will thus 

 come to pass with regard to thee personally, that all persons will 

 then be antagonistic to thee." 



Then De'hae'"hiyawa"kho''' said, "Let the matter stand thus in 

 harmony. There is nothing wrong. No one is antagonistic to thee." 

 O'ha'a' (Flint) replied and said, "Indeed, I shall now do nothing more. 

 Now I have fully made up my mind, that nothing hereafter shall 

 cause me to desist, which is a cause that now I have lost all, my 

 Grandmother, and also my Mother." Then De'hae°'hiyawa"kho°' 

 said, "^^liat kind of thing is the reason that thy mind is sorely 

 vexed? Verily, thou didst kill our Mother, and now she has come 

 to life again; now also she will live for all future time, and, moreover, 

 that still troubles thy mind. If it so be that thou didst kill her, it 

 will not be possible, also, for thee to see her at a short distance; 

 moreover, so it is thus that any one who will kill a human being shall 

 not be pardoned." 



Now at that time O'ha'a' (Flint), it seems, was exceedingly angry, 

 and so now he said, "Go to, let us two go out; let it be out of doors 

 that thou and I shall settle our affairs." Now at that time they two 

 went out, and O'ha'ii' (Flint) said, "All those things whose bodies 

 I have formed, and that are alive, shall continue to have for food 

 all those beings whose bodies others have formed; and thus too will it 

 be in regard to the human beings^" that I have made; that that, too, 

 will be, moreover, that the human beings that another, one other 

 has made, will continue to be their food; and that also the Daylight, 

 also the Darkness, also the Springs of water, severally, will overcome 

 them by magical power; and Disease will continue to wander about 

 employing habitually all manner of means; these, too, will overcome 

 them by magical power, and Mind or Thoughts will go about em- 



See note on p. 610. 



