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the boys. Then the boys told him how they happened to be liis 

 sons. KauBat' was kind to them and invited them to come inside 

 and have something to eat. KauBaf's mother was in there, and she 

 talked to the boys. She asked them about their mother and about 

 how she had met Kausat'. She scolded her son. "Why didn't you 

 bring the gkl here?" she asked. She took a liking to her grandsons. 

 The boj's stayed all night. 



The next morning KauBat' tried to get the boys to gamble with 

 liim, but the boys didn't know how to play. Then Kausat' showed 

 the boys how to run a stick race (atcawaiyi). The boys won. That 

 evening a k'a^'tsina from Wenimats' came to KauBaf's house. He 

 brought lots of buckskms, mantas, belts, etc., to gamble wdth. They 

 played aioak'utyeyi (hidden ball). Kausat' won every tiling from the 

 k'a-'tsina. The boys watched everytliing and learned how to play 

 the game. Then Kausat' asked the boys to tiy their luck. All the 

 boj^s have to bet is their bows, so they bet them. They won. The 

 next day they gambled all day. The boys won right along. Kausat' 's 

 mother is nice to the boys. The next day the boys had ahnost 

 everything that Kausat' owned. They even had his house. The 

 next day KauBat' bet his mother and lost. Then he bet liis lion 

 skin quivver (o'ictiwactan). He lost this. He lost all of his clothes, 

 one piece at a time. At last Kausat' bet his heart against every- 

 thing that the boys can't guess what is in his little buckskin bag 

 that hung from the ceiling. The boys didn't want to do this, but 

 Kausat' insisted. Ca''kaiya, the eldest, was to have eight guesses; 

 his brother was to have four. Go'mi, the younger, tried first and 

 failed. Then Ca"'kaiya started to guess. He had guessed almost 

 eight times when he said "stci'ta!" (stars). That was what was in 

 the bag. Kausat' gave up. But the boys didn't want to kill liim; 

 they felt sorry for him. "We don't want yom- heart," they told liim, 

 "so we will take your eyes out instead." So they took out his eyes. 

 Tliis made Kausat' very mad; he would rather have been killed. 



The boys packed up all theu' \vimiings; they had sacks and sacks 

 fidl of mantas, buckskins, moccasins, belts, etc. They decided not 

 to take KauBat"s mother, but to leave her to take care of Kausat'; 

 they felt sorry for luni. Then they set out for home. 



Kausat' was very mad. He groped around the house feeling with 

 his hands because he can't see. He found some pitch and his fire 

 drill. He made a fire. Then he began to sing; he was asking a 

 coadyam (evd one) to help him; he wanted to destroy the whole 

 coimtry. Kausat' keeps on singing. The fire burns up good. Then 

 he put the pitch on the fire; he wanted it to melt and nm over the 

 whole country and kill everj^one. The fire kept getting larger and 

 the pitch bods out and starts running all over. Kausat' called to 

 his mother to take hiiu away from the flames. She came and got 



