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turned into a human person. He went over to the boy and woke 

 him up. He touched him over the heart and he woke up. "My 

 child, whoever you are, wake up. I am here. You were left alone 

 and I have come." Then the little boy woke up. But he was so 

 miserable that he just opened his e_yes a little and shut them again. 

 Then the eagle said, "Please, little boy, wake up. I shall carry you 

 on my back and take you to my home." The little boy opened his 

 eyes when he heard that the man would carry him home. Then the 

 little boy said, "Yes, please. I am hungry and thirsty and I am not 

 strong enough to go home alone. Please take me." Then the eagle 

 took him and tried to make him stand up but he was so weak he fell 

 right down. Then he said, "Now you try to open your eyes and I 

 shall carry you on my back. You hold on to me and I shall take 

 you down." So the eagle left the little boy and went off a little way 

 and put on his feather dress. Then he came back to the Uttle boy 

 and the little boy just grabbed him by the neck. "Now shut your 

 eyes and we shall go down to your home." 



The people were living at Kakima, and the boy had been left a 

 little to the east. Then he took him down. It was in the afternoon, 

 when the sun turns over. His people had been looking for him for 

 four days. He was the son of the katcina chief. The eagle knew it. 

 The people had been looking aU over for the little boy and his parents 

 cried all the tune. They could not find the boy. Just then the 

 people were coming home from looking for the boy. It was the last 

 time they were going to look for him. Just as they were coming 

 home the eagle brought hini down to the spring called Sumkaia to 

 give him a drink. Then he set him down and said, " Now open your 

 eyes." The little boy dropped down, for his heart was weak. They 

 sat down beside the spring and the eagle said, "Now di-ink. Then 

 3'ou will feel better and you will walk home. Your home is right 

 there, just a httle way off." The eagle said, "Please hurry. Some- 

 one may come and find me here. I am afraid someone will come and 

 find out that I brought you down." Then the little boy drank, and 

 while he was drinking the eagle plucked out sLx of his tail feathers, 

 and he took downy feathers from under his wings and from his 

 shoulders he took the "spoon feathers " (lacokone). Then he pulled up 

 some grass that was growing by the spring and tied it around the 

 feathers. Then he said, "Now you have had a diink and now walk 

 home and take these along to your father. Your parents know that 

 you went with that little boy to look for birds' nests. So take these 

 feathers back to your father and he will think what use he can make 

 of them." So the boy said, "All right." Then the eagle said again, 

 "Take these in to your father. Do not tell him that I gave them to 

 you, but tell him that I brought you down. Your father will know 

 what to do with the feathers. You are going now, and I am going 



