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While her mother was folding the bread, the little girl sat down and 

 started to make atole. Before her mother finished folding, the little 

 girl was through. Again her mother said, "You bushy-head!" 

 The little girl, as soon as she was through folding her bread, took some 

 blue corn again, half a basket full, and started to grind. While she 

 was grinding she began to sing ai! ai! ai! Then she turned, half of 

 her, into an eagle. All she said was ai ! ai ! ai ! Then she became, all 

 of her, an eagle and started to fly. Her mother said, "^Miat is the 

 matter with my girl?" "V^^len she went in where the httle girl was 

 grinding, the girl eagle started to fly out, calling ai ! ai ! To-day she is 

 still flying as an eagle. That is why we do not scold our children. 

 Kaw'inksem, the tail is on you ! 



20. The Girl Flies Away With Eagle 



Natoai there lived a woman. She had a stepdaughter (korure) 

 and a daughter of her own (berpiu, her daughter). Her stepdaughter 

 used to grind corn and wheat day and night. There was never a 

 dance nor any pleasure for her. WTien the other girl ground, the 

 meal would never increase even if she ground all day long. When the 

 father went out, the woman would call her stepdaughter a witch, 

 because her meal seemed so abundant. The stepdaughter became 

 very sick of being so treated by her stepmother (berkorke), so one 

 time she went up on the roof to feed the eagle. She was crying away 

 as she fed it. She said to the eagle, "If you only had power enough, 

 I wish you would take me away somewhere where I could have a better 

 life. I am weary of this hard life, day after day, night after night. " 

 The eagle said to her, "Come and feed me to-morrow, and I will tell 

 you about it, but tell nobody I have talked with you. " So the girl 

 went down and started to grind again and never said a word to any- 

 body. Next day, again, she went up and fed the eagle. Her father 

 had brought a rabbit. Then the eagle said to her, "Twelve days from 

 to-day, my daughter, I will take you away from here, where you will 

 have a better life, and from now on you get all the wheat and corn 

 and blue bread (wafer bread) ready for your father." So the girl 

 started to grind corn and wheat for eight days. She had ground so 

 much wheat that she could find no more sacks to put it in. Instead 

 of being glad, her stepmother scolded her, she scolded and scolded her 

 for making so much meal. On the ninth day she started to nuike 

 bread; for three days she made so much bread they did not know 

 where to put it. The more bread she made, the more berating she 

 got. She started to cry, thinking how she was about to leave her 

 father forever. On the twelfth day in the morning she started to 

 grind some corn meal for her father for him to use for his lifetime. 

 About noon she went up to feed the eagle again, and she opened the 



