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One time they went to the spring, Go'mi, west side. Thej^ found 

 a deer there. "Oh, there's a deer!" the webbed one said. The blind 

 boy said, "Where?" "Right there! Let's shoot him!" The blind 

 boy took his bow and arrows. The webbed one showed him where to 

 point. They shot that deer right there. The blind boy said, "How 

 we going to take home this deer (he says), we ain't got nothing to cut 

 with?" When they got to where the deer was the blind boy felt all 

 over him. "How we going to get him home? He pretty heavy." 

 The webbed boy said, "Let's go look for flint." "Wliat kind of a 

 flint do we have to look for?" says the blind boy. "The one that is 

 sharp and is shaped Hke a knife." 



The blind boy put his brother on his back. The webbed one was 

 singing about something to cut with. He was singing that way. 

 They looking all around. They heard a coyote that was near by. 

 Finallj- they got to where there was many trees. The coyote was 

 standing there. Then he was listening to what the webbed brother 

 was singing. "HeUo, boys; what you looking for?" "Nothing," 

 the webbed boy said; "We not looking for nothing. We just walking 

 around here," he told him. "Yes; one of you boys singing that you 

 looking for knife to butcher with." And he says, that boy, "No! I 

 didn't say I am looking for something like knife to butcher with. 

 I says this way caiutsi, caiutsi (the wind sounds like this when it 

 blows fast)." "No; you must have sometMng killed around here." 

 "No; how can I kill something. I am webbed and my brother he's 

 blind. How can we kill anything?" "No; you must have some- 

 thing, a deer maybe, kiUed around here." Then the coyote he walk 

 off. Then they foimd right near there a flint and then they went 

 back. Then that blind boy said, "Let's look for the coyote and see 

 if he is going off. Let's get up on a high place so we can see if he's 

 going off. Yes; he's going ofl' now; let's go back." Then they go 

 back where he's laying, that deer. When they got back there they 

 commence to cut the skin right in the middle. WTien they got that 

 open, that skin, they skinned some off. They took the guts out and 

 cleaned out good. Then they put some blood in one of the guts and 

 tied up good. Then they set it away. "We going to take this to 

 our mother. Then she can fix for us with the com meal. She will 

 fix the oven in the ground and mix the blood with the com meal and 

 cook it. Let's save every tiling." 



They skinned all off. They were stay there all daj- . Then comes 

 night there. "I wonder what we going to do with this deer? Well, 

 let's get all tliis meat and put on top the trees here." "Let's camp 

 here, then," the webbed one said, "and go home in the morning. I 

 wonder what she will be thinking about us; our mother, if we don't 

 get home. She wiU think some wild beast get us and eat us if we 



