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Dagwa noon vents'-'" rushed forth. Now the cliff liegan to crumble, at 

 which Doonongaes exclaimed : " Let us go (juickly ' This cliff may fall 

 and bury us under it." Doonongaes and Tsodiqgwadon ran out as 

 quickly as possible and were barely outside when down came the 

 cliff. Doonongaes said. "The man from the first lodge ran out at 

 this opening." As they stood there looking carefully around they 

 saw a lodge, in the doorway of which sat a man. whereupon Tsodiq- 

 gwadon said : " That man's name is Hahnyusdais.-'^ He is the master 

 of the dwellers under the cliff, and he kept them as prisoners." " Let 

 us go up and see the fellow," answeied Doonongaes. When they 

 went to the lodge, Hahnyusdais asked, " AVhat did you come here 

 for?" " T came to ask you a question," retorted Doonongaes. " AVeli, 

 wait until I smoke." Hahnyusdais replied, and taking out a stone 

 pipe, he began to smoke. Docmimgaes continued, " I came to ask 

 you what has become of the men you had under the cliff which has 

 just fallen in? " "I will go and see," replied Hahnyusdais. As the 

 place was full of earth he could not look in. and he said to Doonon- 

 gaes, " Do you not belong to the Dagwennigonhge people ? " '' Xo. I 

 do not." was the answer. The old man then inquired : " Why is this 

 place full of earth ? I went in some time ago, but I can not go in now. 

 A man named Deagonstwihes '" came out of here a little while ago and 

 then went back. I suppose he was buried in there." Doonongaes be- 

 gan to laugh at what he had done, saying to Tsodiqgwadon. "Let us 

 chase and catch Hahnyusdais." "What .';hall we do with him?" 

 asked Tsodiqgwadon. " Oh I stretch him," came the reply. There- 

 upon they caught him. and Doonongaes taking him by the head and 

 Tsodiqgwadon by the feet, they pulled in order to stretch him out. 

 Hahnyusdais screamed : " Oh, stop I I do not want long legs. T 

 want to be as I am." But they only pulled the harder. Hahnyusdais 

 growing longer and longer, until Doonongaes said. " This man now 

 tjelongs to our people: he will be Haunhdji.""'^ 



Leaving their victim, the two then went toward the east. At mid 

 day they met the two men who had been .sent to track the Laughing 

 Man -"* after he had killed Doonongaes. "AVhat are you doing ^" 

 asked Doonongaes. They replied: "We are tracking the Laughing 

 Man, who killed our chief. We were sent to track and to kill him. 

 We shall never stop until we catch him. Here are his tracks." 

 "Who was your chief? " said Doonongaes. " Doonongaes," they re- 

 plied. Doonongaes, laughing, said, " Do you not know that when 

 S'hodieonskon dies he comes to life again in a short time?" "No," 

 replied the men, whose names were, respectively, Hatkwisdowanen ^" 

 and Hushewathen.-^* " We do not know that. AVe never heard the 

 old people say that," they answered. " AA'ell, two days after I died 

 I came to life. It is no use to pursue the Laughing Man any longer. 

 You will not catch him. but he will ne\er kill me again. You would bet- 



