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people to take off their garments, : nd to dance facing the wall, the 

 old man, seating himself in the center of the room, began to sing. 

 When he had finished the song, he said, "That will do." Thereupon 

 the dance broke up, the people dressing themselves and going home. 



The young man felt better, but he was angry with the woman who 

 had tormented him ; so he decided to go again and say to her, " I 

 have caught you," before she had time to say it. The next morning 

 he started off without telling his mother where he was going. AVhen 

 near the opening, halting, he called for a mole. In a short time the 

 mole came, whereupon the boy said, " You must carry me to the spot 

 where the woman is, but she must not see us." IJeducing his size 

 until he was quite small, the young man entered the body of the mole, 

 which went beneath the surface of the ground. After a while they 

 peeped out, but the woman was still far off'. They went on again, 

 and when they looked out a second time, they were quite near the 

 woman. She had large eyes, twice as large as those of anyone else, 

 which were red as blood, and whenever she said, " I have caught 

 you," nothing had power over her. 



The boy told the mole to go underground, so as to come out just 

 beneath her feet. The mole did so, and then the boy, exclaiming, " I 

 have caught you ! " at that instant going into her body, squeezed her 

 heart. She cried out with pain, "Do not squeeze so hard." He 

 answered, " I did not say, 'Do not squeeze so hard,' when you 

 squeezed my heart." Thereupon the woman hurried home. When 

 near home she saw that her sisters were pounding corn for bread, 

 and they noticed that she was ci-ying, so one of them said. " I told 

 you that that young man could not be beaten; you should not have 

 touched him." 



One of the sisters, going to the same old man who had cured the 

 boy, said, " Uncle, our youngest sister is very sick ; she is singing, 

 ' I am going to have a dance of naked persons and a pot.' " The old 

 man told her to invite the people to her pot. She did so, and when 

 they were assembled the dance began. At the moment the old man 

 said, " My song is finished." the young man squeezed the girl's heart so 

 hard that she fell down dead. Coming out of her body, the young 

 man went some distance before he became visible. He went home 

 and was tormented no more. He could now hunt in any direction. 



62. Hot'jio, the Winter God'"'' 



One day a man while out hunting met Hot'ho and said to him, 

 " You can not make me freeze, no matter how cold you can make it." 

 Hot'ho replied. " I can do that without much trouble." They had a 

 long discu.ssion of the matter and at last agreed that they would 

 have that night a trial of strength. 



