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that harm will come to you." The grandson said, " I shall not go, 

 grandmother." 



The next morning, after eating his repast of parched cornmeal, 

 he started, directing his course southward. But when he was out 

 of sight of his lodge he changed his course toward the north. 

 Making a circuit around his home, he passed all three places where 

 he had visited his uncles, and finally came to a fourth opening with 

 a lodge standing in its center. Arriving at the lodge, he peeped 

 into it ; there he saw a man who was still older than his other uncles. 

 Making his presence known, he said, "Well, uncle, I have come to 

 visit you." The old man answered, saying: "It is well, my nephew. 

 Come in and sit down. I have a game which I play with all those 

 who come to visit me. I play the bone-dice game. Each has only 

 one throw, and we bet our heads on the result. So get ready." The 

 youth replied : " It is well, uncle ; I will play with you. I will go 

 out for a moment, but will return in as short a time as possible." 

 Going to the river bank, and seeing a flock of ducks, the youth 

 called them to come to him. When they did so, he said to them: 

 " I have a bet, and 1 want you to aid me with your magic power. I 

 desire six of you to lend me your right eyes "^ for a short time. I 

 will bring them back as soon as I make my throw." At once six 

 of the ducks, removing their right eyes, gave them to the youth. 

 On his way back to the lodge the youth said to the eyes, " When the 

 old man throws, some of you drop into the bowl with your sight 

 down, but when I play you must all drop with your sights turned 

 up." When he entered the lodge, he said to the old man, " We will 

 play with my dice." The old man objected to the use of the dice 

 belonging to the youth, but the latter insisted on his right to use 

 his own dice, as the person challenged. They spread a deerskin 

 on the ground, on which they placed a bowl. When the youth had 

 put his dice into the bowl, he asked his uncle to take the first throw, 

 but the old man was not willing to do so. After disputing for 

 some time, however, the old man shook the bowl, whereupon the 

 eyes, as ducks quacking as they flew, rose slowly to the smoke-hole, 

 and then fell back into the bowl as dice, some right side up and 

 others the wrong side up. Then the youth shook the bowl, and 

 the dice flew up as ducks, quacking loudly, and going out of the 

 smoke-hole, they disappeared in the clouds. The old man, as was 

 the custom, sat, saying : " Let there oe no count. Let there be no 

 count," while the youth cried out : " Let the count be five. Let the 

 count be five." In a short time they heard the ducks coming in the 

 distance, and then they soon dropped into the dish as dice again, 

 all being right side up, at which the youth cried out, " I have won 

 the game." The old man begged to be permitted to take one smoke 

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