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Their mother began to make them bows and arrows; their grand- 

 mother made them akiila're (wheaten slapjacks in lard). Next 

 morning early they all ate. When the sun rose they started. "Aku- 

 terimi, good-bye," they said to then- grandmother and mother. They 

 left them worrj-ing and crying. Out far from the village younger 

 brother got tired. Older brother said, "I'U take you." He took the 

 cord of tendon *^ off his arrow and took off the oak stick (pikwiri).'* 

 He asked his brother to go into the cane arrow. When his brother 

 went in, he tied the arrow again. He put it to the bow and shot to 

 the east. It fell to the center of the world. Then he ran on himself 

 to the middle of the world before his younger brother should choke 

 inside the arrow. It was stuck in a hill where chi'ipa\ihiu (grand- 

 mother Spider old woman) lived. She came out and took it into her 

 house. When older brother got there he found only the mark of the 

 arrow, and the footprints of grandmother Spider old woman. He 

 tracked her to her little house, to a little hole. He said, " Akuwam' ! " 

 "Akuwam', grandchild," she answered, "come in, grandchild." The 

 boy said, "How can I come in? I can not fit into this door." "Yes, 

 you can come in if you but trs" to come in." Then the boy tried to 

 go in, and it was a big house. He asked for his arrow. Grand- 

 mother Spider old woman said she did not take it. "Yes; you took it, 

 for I tracked you right to your house." She had it hidden behind 

 the wall of the fireplace. "Yes; I did take it," she said, and she went 

 and got it and handed it to him. Hawo', chi'i (thank you, grand- 

 mother). Then he untied the oak end and out jumped the younger 

 boy. 



Grandmother Spider old woman was surprised to see him. When 

 he jumped out, he said, "Grandmother, grandmother!" and the old 

 woman said, "Grandchild, grandchild!" and embraced him. Then 

 she began to ask how it happened that where nobody came around 

 they had come. The older boy told the story of how they lived, 

 and how they found the pond, and how the young man told them the 

 sun was their father, and how they went out to look for him. Grand- 

 mother Spider old woman said, "Ea'wo', grandchild, you will die 

 before you can reach him, but I will try to help you arrive where 

 your father lives. 1 warn you that when you arrive there, your 

 father being mean, is not going to recognize you. He lives at 

 Toshanpaw'ie' (sunrise lake). He has another heart. He has not 

 his own heart; that is why he is mean. But I will give you something 

 to change his heart — put a new heart in him, then he will recognize 

 you. Do not be afraid. I will help you." (She had a little power.) 

 The children were pleased and thanked her. "Before you start to 

 go, let us eat a meal together." The older boy said, "No, grand- 



'* Shie, from back of sheep, used to make bowstring and to sew moccasins and fasten arrows. 

 " Fastened to the end of the cane arrow. 



