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house, but instoiid of cloui'lny tlio whole piece they eleared only seven 

 little spots. This is why corn now grows only in ii few pliices instead 

 of over the whole world. They dragged the body of Selu around the 

 circle, and wherever her l)h)o<l fell on tii(> ground tlie corn s])raiig up. 

 Hut instead of dragging her body seviMi times across the grt)und they 

 dragged it over only twice, which is the reason tlie Indians still work 

 their crop Vmt twice. The two brothers sat up and watched theii-corn 

 all night, and in the morning it was full grown and ripe. 



When Kana'ti came home at last, he looked around, but could not see 

 Selu anywhere, and asked the l)ovs where was their mother. "She was 

 a witch, and we killed her." said the l)oys; "there is her head up there 

 on top of the house." "When he saw his wife's head on the roof, he 

 was very angry, and said, "1 won't stay with you any longer; T am 

 going to the "Wolf people." So he started oil', but l)efore he had gone 

 far the "Wild Boy changed himself again to a tuft of down, which fell 

 on Kana'ti's shoidder. When Kana'ti reached the settlement of the 

 Wolf people, they were holding a council in the townhouse. He went 

 in and sat down with the tuft of bird's down on his shoulder, but he 

 never noticed it. When the Wolf chief asked him his business, he 

 said: "I have two bad boys at home, and I want you to go in seven 

 days from now and play ball against them." Although Kana'ti spoke 

 as tiiough he wanted them to play a game of ball, the Wolves knew 

 that he meant for them to go and kill the two boj's. . They promised to 

 go. Then the bird's down blew off from Kana'ti's shoulder, and the 

 smoke carried it up through the hole in the roof of the townhouse. 

 "When it came down on the ground outside, the Wild Boy took his right 

 shape again and went home and told his brother all that he had heard 

 in the townhouse. But when Kana'ti left the "Wolf people, he did not 

 returu home, but went on farther. 



The boys then began to get ready for the Wolves, and the "\^^ild 

 Boy — the magician — told his brother what to do. They ran aroiuid 

 the house in a wide circle until they had made a trail all around it 

 excepting on the side from which the Wolves would come, where they 

 left a small open space. Th(>n they made four large l)undles of arrows 

 and placed them at four different points on the outside of tlu- circle, 

 after which they hid themselves in the woods and waitcnl for the 

 Wolves. In a day or two a wholi> pai'ty of Wolves came and sur- 

 rounded the house to kill the boys. The AVolvcs did not notice the 

 trail ai'ound the house, because they came in where the boys had left 

 the opening. l)ut the moment they went inside the circle the trail 

 changed to a high brush feui-e and shut them in. Then the boys on 

 the outside took their arrows and began shooting them down, and as 

 the Wolves could not jump over the fence they were all killed, excepting 

 a few that escaped through the opening into a great swamp close liy. 

 The boys ran around the swamp, and a circle of lire sprang up in their 



