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solved to make a creature that would run on the ground. So form- 

 ing a deer out of earth, he brought it to life. Thereupon, saying to it, 

 " Xow you shall run swiftly and go everywhere around the world," 

 he caused the deer to live by blowing upon it. In this manner he 

 made all the various kinds of wild animals, and also formed a human 

 being out of the earth. . 



The elder brother had a chosen place where he sat while making 

 these things. When he formed the human being, his brother chanced 

 to find him. Then the younger brother, deciding that he, too, would 

 form a human being, went off by himself. Having foi-med a human 

 being as best he could, he brought his creation to life, but it did not 

 look like the human being his brother had formed; it was a strange 

 looking creature. When he saw that it was not a human being, but 

 an ugly-looking object, he said: "My brother has made a human 

 being over tliere ; you may eat the human being made by my brother." 



The elder brother, suspecting the younger, went near him %nd 

 found him maJcing animals of various kinds, and he also heard him 

 instructing them to eat human beings. So, going back to his own 

 place, the elder brother caught the cherrj' bird, and pulling out the 

 hind leg of a grasshopper, he gave it to the bird, saying, " Go and 

 scare my brother." As the bird held the leg it became in form like 

 that of a human being and bloody. Flying near the younger 

 brother, the bird perched on a near-by bough and began to cry out, 

 " Gowe! Gotve!'''' Wlien the younger brother saw what the bird car- 

 ried and heard what it cried, he left his work and fled home to his 

 grandmother, to whom he said: "A bird came and perched just 

 where I was at work. I believe my brother made it to frighten me, 

 for I was afraid that it would pull my leg out, so I fled from there." 

 When the elder brother returned the grandmother said, " You should 

 not frighten j-our brother." 



Finding that the first human being made was wandering around 

 alone, the elder brother decided to make a companion for him in the 

 form of his grandmother. So he did this, and when the new being 

 was finished he breathed into her, telling her to walk, and then he 

 took her to the man, saying to him : " I give you her. You must al- 

 ways go together." During the night the human beings found that 

 one of the man's arms and one of the woman's were in the way, so the 

 man said, " We will cut them off," and this they did. When their 

 maker came along in the morning and saw what they had done he 

 said : " This will not do. I shall give them blood and pain " ; ^^ so from 

 liim.self he gave them a portion of blood and a measure of pain. He 

 also put back tiie arms which they had severed from their bodies. 

 Before this they had no blood nor pain. To the man he said: "I 

 have made you two. and now you shall have children like yourselves. 

 You may also hunt the animals which I have made for food. Kill 



