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gave only one look ;inrl ran back to tlic house, crvino-. T'Kg(i'.-:i:'ti'i/n! 



T.sul'kalu' was terribly an<>-ry. Ho untwisted himself and eauie out 

 of the asl. and said i>-ood-bye to the t^irl, tellinw- her that he would never 

 let her mother see him ayain, but would yo back to his own eountrv. 

 Then he went oti' in the direction of Tsunegun'yi. 



Soon after he left the girl had her monthly period. There was a verv 

 ofreat flow of blood, and the mother threw it all into the river. One 

 night after the girl had gone to bed in the asi her husband came again 

 to the door and said to her, " It seems you are alone," and asked wh(>re 

 was the child. She said there had been none. Then he asked wlu're 

 was tiie blood, and she said that her mother had thrown it into the 

 i-ivi>r. She told just where the place was, and he went there and found 

 a small worm in the water. He took it up and carried it back to the 

 asi, and as he walked it took form and began to grow, until, when he 

 reached the asi, it was a l)aby girl that he was carrying. He gave it 

 to his wife and said, '"Your mother does not like me and abuses our 

 child, so come and let us go to my home." The girl wanted to be with 

 her husband, so, after telling her mother good-bye, she took up the 

 child and they went oil' together to Tsunegufi'j'i. 



Now, the girl had an older brother, who lived with his own wife jn 

 another settlement, and when he heard that his sister was married he 

 came to pay a visit to her and her new husliand, but when he arrived at 

 Kanuga his mother told him his sister had taken her child and gone 

 awaj' with her husband, noliody knew where. He was sorry to see his 

 mother so loneh*. so he said he would go after his sister and try to tind her 

 and bring her back. It was easy to follow the footprints of the giant, 

 and the young man went along the trail until he came to a place where 

 they had rested, and there were ti'acks on the gi-ound where a child had 

 been lying and other marks as if a baby had been liorn there. He went 

 on along the trail and came to another place where they had rested, 

 and there were tracks of :i bal)y crawling at)out and another lying on 

 the ground. He went on and came to where they had rested again, 

 and there were tracks of a child walking and another crawling about. 

 He went on until he cani(> where they had rested again, and there 

 were tracks of one child ruruiing and another walking. Still he fol- 

 lowed the trail along the stream into the mountains, and came to the 

 place where they had restefl again, and this time there were footprints 

 of two children running all about, and the footprints can still be seen 

 in tile rock at that place. 



Twice again he found wiieri> they had rested, and then the trail led 

 up the slope of Tsuneguii'yi. and he heard the sound of a drum and 

 voices, as if people were dancing inside the mountain. Soon he came 

 to a cave like a doorway in the side of the moiuitain, l)ut the rock was 

 so steep and smooth that he could not climb up to it. but could only 



