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them and eat their flesh; this will be your food. I have decided to 

 go above in the sky. You will not live here forever. You shall die^ 

 and your spirit shall come up to me where I will live hereafter." 

 After the younger brother found that the elder brother had gone up 

 into the sky he went forth and, seeing the man and the woman, he 

 talked with them. Then he said to himself, " I am going to make a 

 human being at any cost." So, taking earth, he shaped it as best he 

 could ; and when it was completed he blew into its mouth and or- 

 dered it to arise and whoop. Thereupon it shouted, "Ho, ho!" He 

 shoved it from behind and it took a great leap. It was a green frog 

 which was as large as a man. The younger brother was now angry 

 and said: "I can not make a man. My brother has made a human 

 being and she-human being and many animals. May what I have 

 made become man-eaters and eaters of animals — eaters of whatever 

 my brother has made." 



l^e elder brother, looking down from the sky, saw that all the 

 animals which his brother had made were trying to eat up the human 

 beings and the animals which he had made. So he placed all these 

 monsters of his brother's creation down in the ground and ordered 

 them to stay there so long as the earth remained. Having done this, 

 he returned to his home in the sky. 



When the younger brother learned that his animals had been 

 placed underground by his brother, he was very angry, and ex- 

 claimed, " I shall try again to make a human being." So he worked 

 a portion of clay to make it pliable and responsive, going at time& 

 to take a look at the human being which his brother had made. But 

 when his own human being was finished and he had brought him to 

 life, he was indeed a horrid-looking creature. The younger brother 

 told him to whoop, but he could only say, " Ho, ho ! " This creature 

 was S'hagodiyoweqgowa, who was told by the younger brother to go 

 and eat up all the things that his elder brother had made. S'hagodiyo- 

 weqgowa started off to do this. 



The elder brother in the sky, seeing what was going on, came down 

 to earth to place S'hagodiyoweqgowa under the ground. But the lat- 

 ter spoke first, saying : " I desire to live on the earth. I will be your 

 servant and will help you. I will go around in the woods and rocky 

 places. The ashes of the fires shall be my medicine for human beings. 

 Should anyone be taken ill, I will scatter ashes over the patient, who 

 shall be made well at once." The elder brother could not put .S'hago- 

 diyoweqgowa underground, for he had spoken first, so he had to 

 allow him to remain on the surface of the earth. 



Now, the younger brother, going to his grandmother, said : " I have 

 tried my best to make a human being, but have failed. I shall now 

 cause people to be evil-minded. I shall go away and shall have a. 



