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warued to look out for the "Great Eyes," which would be sure to see 

 him, he called for a mole, to which he said, "I am going in this direc- 

 tion and I want you to creep down under the grass where you will not 

 be seen." Having gone into the mole, he at last saw the Great Head 

 through the blades of grass. Ever watchful, the head cried out "Ku°n- 

 ku"," "I see thee." The man in the mole saw that the "Head" was 

 watching an owl, then drawing his bow, he shot an arrow into the 

 Great Head, crying, "I came after yoix." The arrow as it flew to its 

 mark became very large, but as it was returning became as small as 

 when it left the bow. Thereupon, taking the arrow, he ran swiftly 

 toward home; but he had not gone far when he heard a great noise 

 like the coming of a storm. It was the Great Head riding on a tempest. 

 Unshaken by this, he continued to run until he saw that the Great Head 

 was coming down to the spot where he was, when he drew his bow 

 again, and as the arrow left the bow it became larger as it sped, and it 

 drove the Great Head away as before it had done. These maneuvers 

 were repeated many times. In the meanwhile the uncle had prepared 

 a mallet, and now he heard the rush and roar of the coming hurricane 

 and said, "The stranger has allured him home." He now went to the 

 door and said, "We must hammer him; here, take this mallet." As the 

 Great Head came bursting through the door, the two men industriously 

 plied their mallets to it. At this proceeding, the Great Head began to 

 laugh, thus: "Si-h sih si-h," for he was pleased to see his brother. 

 When the tumult had subsided, the uncle asked the Great Head to re- 

 main, and gave him to e.it the blocks which had been prepared for him. 

 Then the two men told the Great Head about the brothers who were 

 lost and about the stranger. Then the Great Head said, " I know where 

 they have gone; they have gone to a place where lives a woman who is 

 a witch and who sings continually." 



Now, the Great Head said, " I have been here long enough ; I want to go 

 home ; this young man is pretty bright, and if he wishes to go to see this 

 witch, I will show him her abode and all the bones of his brothers." The 

 young man consenting, he and the Great Head started on the morrow, 

 and finally came to a place where they heard this song: "Dy-gifinyade, 

 he"-on-we, he'-on-we-ni"-il-h gi-di ou-ni-Jih," which the witch was singing. 

 At length she spoke and said " Schis-t-ki-aii"; this was the magical word 

 at which, when heard, all turned to dry bones. tJpou hearing this the 

 Great Head said, "I will ask the question, 'How long have you been 

 here?' and the hair will fall from my head and you must replace it, and 

 it will grow fast, and then I will bite her flesh and pull it from her, and 

 as it comes off you must take it from my mouth and throw it ofi", saying 

 'Be a fox, a bird, or anything else,' and it will then run off never to 

 return." 



They did as they had planned, and when the witch begged for mercy 

 the Great Head said, "You had no mercy; see the dry bones; you must 

 die": and so they killed her, and her flesh was turned into animals, and 

 birds, and fish. 



