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went by into the house, and the Copperhead cniwled oti' without tiyiiijr 

 to do anything. 



So the peopi(> still died from the heat, and they went to the Little 

 Men a second time for help. The Little Men made medicine again and 

 changed one man into the great Uktena and another into the Rattle- 

 snake and sent them to watch near the house and kill the old Sun when 

 she came for dinner. They made the Uktena very large, with horns 

 on his head, and everyone thought he would be sure to do the work, 

 but the Rattlesnake was so quick and eager that he got ahead and coiled 

 up just outside the house, and when the Sun's daughter opened the 

 door to look out for her mother, he sprang up and bit her and she fell 

 dead in the doorway. He forgot to wait for the old Sun, ))ut went 

 back to the people, and the Uktena was so very angr\- that he went 

 back, too. Since then we pray to the rattlesnake and do not kill liini, 

 because he is kind and never tries to bite if we do not disturb him. 

 The Uktena grew angi'ier all the time and very dangerous, so tliat if 

 he even looked at a man, that man's family would die. After a long 

 time the people held a council and decided that he was too dangerous 

 to be with them, so they sent him up to Galun'liiti, and he is there 

 now. The Spreading-adder, the Copperhead, the Rattlesnake, and the 

 Uktena were all men. 



When the Sun found her daughter dead, she went into the house 

 and grieved, and the people did not die any more, but now the world 

 was dark all the time, because the Sun would not come out. They 

 went again to the Little Men, and these told them that if they wanted 

 the Sun to come out again thej- must bring Ijack her daughter from 

 Tsusgina'i, the Ghost countrj% in Usufihi'yi, tlie Darkening land in 

 the west. They chose seven men to go, and gave each a sourwood rod 

 a hand-breadth long. The Little Men told them they must take a box 

 with them, and when they got to Tsusgina'i they would tind all the 

 ghosts at a dance. They must stand outside the circle, and when the 

 young woman passed in the dance thej* must strike her with the rods 

 and she would fall to the ground. Then they must put her into the 

 box and bring her back to her mother, but they must be very sure not 

 to open the box, even a little way, until they were home again. 



The}' took the rods and a box and traveled seven days to the west 

 luitil they came to the Darkening land. There were a great manj^ 

 people there, and they were having a dance just as if they were at 

 home in the settlements. The young woman was in the outside circle, 

 and as she swung around to where the seven men were standing, one 

 struck her with his rod and she turned her head and saw him. As she 

 came around the second time another touched her with his rod, and 

 then another and another, until at the seventh round she fell out of 

 the ring, and they i)ut her into the })ox and closed the lid fast. The 

 other ghosts seemed never to notice what had ii;i[>pened. 



