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would have food during his long watch. He also supplied the toad 

 with water to drink. Before descending into the hole Mase\^-i told 

 the toad to sit on the entrance faithfully and not to move even 

 though told to do so by some passer-by. But if someone should 

 ask the toad to open his mouth he should obey. 



So the brothers went dowTi the hole, way down to a lower world. 

 When they reached the bottom they went west to a place called 

 Akutcstcototsica (Flower Mound). They selected this place be- 

 cause they knew that there was a well there. At Kacikatcutia 

 there lived a man named Waikuti-miti, whom the people hated. 

 (The meaning of his name and the reason he was disliked are not 

 known.) This man Masewi and his brother brought with them to 

 . Akiitcstcototsica. The brothers started a farm mth the seeds 

 they had brought with them; Waikuti-miiti was to tend the fields. 

 And so they lived in this way and were happy. They had plenty of 

 everything. But they worked hard and stored up much food, for 

 they loiew that the people at Kacikatcutia would be starving at 

 the end of the 10 j^ears. 



Four days after Masewi and Oyoyewi left latik was looking for 

 them. She wanted them to dance for her because the water was 

 going down in the medicine bowl. Not being able to find the 

 brothers, latik decided to dance, but all her efforts failed to raise 

 the water in the medicine bowl and to bring rain. Day by day the 

 water went down. Becoming alarmed, latik asked the k'a-'tsina to 

 come to her house to dance. The k'a"'tsina came to her house and 

 danced for her, but no clouds arose from the bowl and no rain 

 followed. The water continued to fall in the bov.'l. At the end of 

 a year the bowl went dry. There was a spring near the village where 

 the people got water to drink. But it never rained and there was 

 no snow. latik appealed to the four rain makers of the four cardi- 

 nal points (see p. 66), but they could do nothing. 



Five years continued in this way. latik became desperate. Then 

 she called a humming bird (miitc") and asked him to find Masewi and 

 Oyoyewi. On the first day of his search the humming bird went to 

 the north, but could find no trace of the two brothers. The next day 

 he went to the west, but was again unsuccessful. On the third day 

 he went to the south; no success. The fourth day took him to the 

 east, but nothing could be learned of the brothers. Then the hum- 

 ming bird set out again, going to the north. Attracted by the flowers 

 that Masewi had caused to grow to supply the horned toad with 

 food, the humming bird came upon TaBinock, sitting on the hole. 

 "Duictraa" (Are you there?), humming bird greeted homed toad. 

 "Yes," he replied. Humming bird asked the toad to move to the 

 north, but he refused. Then he asked him to move to the west, but 

 again he refused. Humming bird asked him to move to the south, 



