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toward tho wo.st. Tho Ijoys wiiitod a little while and then went after 

 hiin. keepiiio- out of siylit until tliey saw him go into a .swamp where 

 there were a great many of tlie small reeds that hunters use to make 

 arrowshafts. Then tlie Wild Boy changed himself into a pufT of 

 ))ird"s down, whicli the wiiid took up and eaiTied until it alighted upon 

 Kana'tfs shoulder just as he (>ntered the swamp, but Kana'ti knew 

 notiiing about it. Tlieold man cut reeds, fittedthe feathers to them and 

 made some arrows, and tlie \\'ild Boy — in his other shape — thought, 

 "1 wonder what those things are for?" When Kana'ti had his arrows 

 finished he came out of tlie swamp and went on again. The wind blew 

 the down from his siuiulder. and it fell in the woods, when the Wild 

 Boy took his right shape again and went back and told his brother 

 what he had seen. Keeping out of sight of their father, they followed 

 him up the mountain until lie stopped at a certain phice and lifted a 

 large rock. At once thei-e ran out a buck, which Kana'ti shot, and 

 then lifting it upon his back lie started for home again. "Oliol" 

 exclaimed the boys, "he keeps all the deer shut up in tliat hole, and 

 whenever he wants meat he just lets one out and kills it with tho.se 

 things he made in the swamp." They hunried and reached home liefore 

 their father, who had the heavy deer to carry, and he never knew that 

 they had followed. 



A few days later the ))oys went back to the swamp, cut some reeds, 

 and made seven arrows, and tlien started up the mountain to where 

 their father kept the game. When they got to the place, they raised 

 the rock and a deer ciinie running out. Just as they drew back to shoot 

 it, iuiother came out, and then :iiii)tli(>r and another, until the boys got 

 confased and forgot what they were ahout. In those days all the deer 

 had their tails hanging down like other animals, but as a buck was 

 running past the Wild Boy struck its tail with his arrow so that it 

 pointed upward. The boys thought this good .sport, and when the 

 next one ran past the Wild Boy struck its tail so that it .stood striiight 

 up, and his brother struck tlie next one so hard with his arrow that 

 the deer's tail was almost curled o\i'r his liack. The deer carries his 

 tail this way ever since. The deer came running past until the last 

 one had come out of the hole and escaped into the forest. Then came 

 droves of raccoons, iiil)bits, and all the oilier four-footed animals — all 

 but the bear, because there was no bear then. Last cam(> great ilocks 

 of turkeys, pigeons, and partridges that darkened the air like a cloud 

 and made such a noise with their wings that Kana'ti, sitting at home, 

 heard the sound like distant fliunder on the mountains and said to liini- 

 self, " My bad boys have got into trouble: 1 must go and si'C what they 

 are doing." 



So he went up the mountain, and when he came to the place where 

 he kept the game he found tlii' two boys standing In' the rock, and all 

 the birds and animals were gone. Kana'ti was furious, but without 



