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estufa." The spider told the gu-1 to tell the women she was runninp; 

 away and to ask them to lielp her. "They are smart," the spider said. 

 The gul told them, "Can you help me? Mactcoai is coming after 

 me. Can you help me something to save my Ufe? " The women told 

 the girl to go in another room. "WTien we have lolled him, you can 

 come out," they said. "All right!" 



Mactcoai was coming. He came on top and hollered, "Is she in- 

 side? Tell her to come up!" "No, she won't come wp. You come 

 down." So Mactcoai went down the ladder. "Where is she?" 

 The kotcLnnakos took Mactcoai in a side room. There were four 

 big potteries (pottery jars, or bowls) in there, one north, one west, 

 one south, and one east. They told Mactcoai to holler in each one 

 of those bowls, and if he could, he could have the gu'l. So Mactcoai 

 began to holler into the bowls. Fh-st he holler in the north bowl. 

 Then he hoUer in the west bowl. His voice get weaker. Then he 

 hoUer in the south bowl. His voice weak now. Then he holler in the 

 east bowl. He died m the east bowl: his limgs came out. They tied 

 them up in the bowl. Then the kotchinnakos called the girl out. 

 She saw Mactcoai. The women said, "Let's pick hhn up and throw 

 him out on top." Mactcoai always dressed good. Looked nice. 



"Where is your home?" "At Gonu." "Well, you can go home 

 now." The girl got home. Her mother and father saw her coming. 

 They cry 'cause she been lost long time. She told all about what's 

 happened. 



Mactcoai lay there four days. He turn black. The shiwanna 

 (cloud men) missed him. "I guess someone they kill him. He like 

 the girls. We get tired laying down. No one tells us to get up to 

 make the clouds." Those shiwanna had a meeting. To decide what 

 to do. Try decide to hunt for him. "To-morrow morning we hunt 

 for him." "All right." Next morning the clouds came from west, 

 south, east, north. Rained lilce dickens, all whole world. Finally 

 they find Mactcoai. He aU black. The shiwanna said, "Here he is. 

 He's got no heart any more." They look around a while. They find 

 the house where the kotcinnakos hved. "I guess they got that heart 

 in there, those kotchimiakos." So they come up with clouds and 

 lightning. It lightning and it scare those kotcmnakos. They throw 

 the pottery out with the heart m it. The shiwanna pick up that heart 

 and the body. They took him to Kawecoima. They put the heart 

 back. Mactcoai all black. He cry; he don't look lilce he was. 

 "Can you fix me up so I be nice looking fellow?" So the shiwanna 

 took snow balls and made wliite stripes. "That's more better now." 

 Then they make earrings for him. They took two Uzards (nieyu) and 

 made him earrings (he had had turquoise earrings before). Then 

 they gave him a headdress of turkey feathei's, and gave him his 

 mackutc and stick back. Then they sent him home. Mactcoai's 



