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earth come together. Whom shall we send to tell them to come and 

 help us? Let us call a fast runner and send him to the Hopi." So 

 the war chief went out and called in a fast runner. When he came in 

 he said, "My fathers, what have you to say that you have called me 

 in? I should like to loiow." Then all the men said, "Now, our son, 

 we would like you to go to the Hopi and ask them if they can come to 

 help us. Tell them your fathers here know them and thought of them 

 here, that they know how to shut up the earth. Say we have an 

 earthquake here and need their help. And you will say this, 'You 

 may ask for anything you want and no matter what you ask for, my 

 fathers will be wiUing to give it to you.'" 



Then the priest made for him a downy feather tied to a cotton cord 

 and fastened it in his hair that he nught go quickly. Then the boy 

 left and went to the Hopi and told their chief what the priests had 

 told him. Then the Hopi chief said, "I shall tell my people and we 

 shall come to-morrow." So he said. The boy came back. He came 

 back quickly because he was wearing the downy feather, and he got 

 back the same night. The next morning he went to the priests and 

 told them that the Hopi were coming. 



So the Hopi man went to the others and he told three of the chiefs 

 to come to his house. When they came he said, "The Itiwana people 

 have called us. They have had an earthquake there and they need 

 us to come. What do you think? Shall we go?" Then the three 

 chiefs said, "Yes, we should go, because if we should ever have trouble 

 and need them, then they will come and help us. It is better for us 

 to go." Then they all four of them got their buckskins and they said, 

 "Now what shall we take with us?" Then they said, "You shall 

 go there to the north and ask our grandfather to make us a mat of 

 reeds (lakine)." The Hopi went there and he said, "How do you do, 

 my grandfather," and he replied, "How do you do, grandson." 

 Then the Hopi said, "I have come here to ask you to help us make a 

 mat of reeds for our people in Itiwana. They have had an earthquake 

 and they have called us to help them and we are going there. We 

 have four buckskins, and we know that you have a strong body, so 

 we have asked you if you will come and make us a reed mat." Then 

 he answered, "You shall not carry that. I shall make it for you and 

 I shall go with you. It is better so. The daylight people do not 

 know how to close up the earth. I shall go with you and show you 

 how to close up the earth. You are the people to close up the 

 earth here, beca-use this is your coimtry, but over there you can not 

 do it, so I shall go with you and be a great help to the people." 

 So he said. Then the man said, "Very well. I shall ask my head 

 ones first. I must ask them before you can go with me." So he 

 went back and asked the three chiefs. He came back without the 

 reed mat and other things. They asked him, "Why is it they did 



