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Thou knowest confronts us so closely. Now I finish mj^ tale. So it 

 is enough. Now, moreover, we will lie clown to sleep." 



Then they lay down to sleep. At midnight the chief, who was 

 awake, heard some one speak there, saying: "I have heard j'our 

 prayers asking me to aid you; so now I have arrived here. In this 

 manner you must do, to-morrow. Verily, you two have agreed to 

 meet in the deep valley at midday. You must act in this manner. 

 You must go along the top of the ridge at the cliff's edge, and you 

 nnist lie prone, resting on your elbows; this you must do before it is 

 midday. You must remain perfectly still, and you must not carry 

 out your agreement with them. Then you must watch the opposite 

 cliff, and as soon as you see a bear on the run there you must shout 

 Pa — 'a p-ku-e. Then you must retreat a short distance and stop, 

 whereupon you shall see how truly I will aid you. You will hear 

 them when they come into the valley, for the sound tau — u which 

 they will make will be very loud." 



The men followed the directions given them by their Creator, to 

 whom they had appealed in their extremity, and went to the cliff 

 and lay down just as they had been instructed to do. They had not 

 waited long before they heard their enemies coming along in the 

 valley, with their chief singing as they marched. The chief of the 

 warriors was intently watching the opposite cliff, when suddenly he 

 saw a bear running along on the edge of it. At this he sliouted. as 

 he had been instructed to do. Pa — 'a p-hu-e, and then, quickly arising 

 and turning back, they fled; but after going a short distance the}' 

 stopped, and turning around, they looked back to see what was 

 taking place in the valley. As they watched, the sound of the on- 

 coming of the Genonsgwa increased in volume and intensity; and 

 when they had all got into the valley the sound of their marching 

 liecame a veritable roar, sounding like doo-o. 



Now they saw what astonished them; they saw the earth from the 

 sides of the valley fall into it. carrying with it the forests which gi-ew 

 on it in the region of the valley. At once the sounds of the marching 

 of the Genonsgwa died out, and the only sounds they then heard were 

 the breaking and crashing of the trees as they settled down under 

 the mountains of earth that fell into the valley. Then they heard the 

 voice of their Creator saying: "What you asked of me has been 

 granted in full. I am He whom you usually call Our Master. Verily, 

 1 continue to aid you, who are called the Seneca people. I aid you 

 in all things, in ball-playing, in foot-racing, and in warfare. Now 

 3'ou shall go to your homes, to the places where your dwelling-places 

 are. Never in the future must you do what you were doing. It 

 is much better that you shall settle all differences which you may have 

 with all other peoples. You must stop your present course, for if 

 you do not do so, you yourselves shall bleed in turn. So you must 



