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as they saw them going in, they went behind. (It was a cave east of 

 Isleta, on the other side of the river.) They lay down. Since the 

 toyi'de had power, nobody could see them. 



WTien the women arrived, the witch chief asked them why they were 

 late. They answered that their- husbands were going out hunting 

 that day and they had not had time to get ready tUl afternoon. The 

 witch chief said, "I can not stand it this way. You two women are 

 the only ones late when we have a meeting. Now you have a good 

 chance when your husbands are out hunting. Let us try to get rid 

 of them. So tomorrow morning foUow your husbands, both of you, 

 and by the time we get over there, change yourselves into deer. Let 

 them follow you, and you take them into a long arroyo which they 

 can not clmib out of and where they will freeze to death. Then we 

 will get rid of them and you will do your work better hereafter. Now 

 let's all put on our clothes. We will all go out in the different direc- 

 tions I will name." They all started to take down their clothes — 

 owl skin, fox skin, eagle skin, and wolf skin. ^Tien they wanted 

 to change into the skins (i. e., animals), they could not do it. They 

 tried all night long. The witch chief said, "Somebody must be around 

 here." He told the two wilawe to go out. But since the power of 

 the toyi'de was stronger, he was not discovered. When the two 

 wilawe came in, they said, "Nobody is around. We can not discover 

 anybody." The witch chief said, "Well, let's try again. Put on 

 your clothes!" They tried and they failed. FinaOy the witch chief 

 got mad and told the wilawen, "I think we are having tliis because 

 of these two women's husbands. So I want you two boys to turn into 

 bucks tomorrow and go with these two women to help them to work 

 and kill their husbands. Take them to the long cUff and the two 

 does will go at the foot and the two bucks at the top and when the 

 men come to the edge of the cUfF, you butt them down over it. We 

 can not do much while these men are troubling us." 



So everybody hung up their skins and they were excused untU the 

 next night. The two men knew what was going to happen to them 

 the next day. Instead of waiting tiU noon to kill their bucks, they 

 killed them just as the sun came up. Toyi'de said, "Kimkaaweiimba 

 (oiu- fathers) have helped us, so we better divide these bucks and go 

 on home before those other bucks arrive. Now, remember, when we 

 get home we are not going to find our wives. They will come home 

 late, almost at sundown, but say not one word to your wife. See 

 what they will tell us when they get home." They went on and when 

 they got home, they found nobody excepting their brothers-in-law 

 (imyiewein). They started to make their food and they waited for 

 their wives. A little after sundowoi the women came home. They 

 said, "Ena'mui! (exclamation of surprise). Did you come home right 

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