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Now the child got up, chig out the eyes of everybody in that house, 

 beginning with the man who had captured her, and w^ent from house 

 to house throughout the entire vilhige doing the same thing. 



There W'as a sick woman in that place for whom they had made a 

 small house back of her own, and, when this child came in to her, she 

 tried to make out whose it was. She said to herself that she thought 

 she knew ever}^ child in the village, yet she did not recognize this one. 

 The child had the people's eyes rolled up in some leaves. As it sat 

 close to the fire eating them the woman thought, ''What is that child 

 eating?" She w^ould throw them into the fire and then take them 

 out and eat them. Finally the woman sat up, looked to see what the 

 child was devouring, and discovered they were human eyes. After 

 she was through with what she had the child woidd go out again after 

 more. The woman watched her closely. 



Now the sick woman felt very sleepy but she did not dare to sleep 

 for, every time she began to doze off, she felt the child coming tow^ard 

 her face. She had a little child beside her. Finally the sick woman 

 determined that she would stay awake, so she placed her walking 

 stick very close to her, and, as soon as the child came too close, she 

 would strike it and make it run away. This continued until daylight 

 when the child disappeared. 



Now the woman was surprised to hear no noises about the town 

 and wondered wdiat was wrong. She thought she would go out to 

 look. First she went to her own house and saw that all the people 

 there were dead, with their eyes gouged out, and she saw the same 

 thing in all the other houses. Then the woman felt very sad. She 

 threw her marten-skin robes about herself, took a copper plate on 

 each side, placed her baby on her back and started off. She is the 

 L!e'nAxxI'dAq, which a person sees when he is going to become very 

 wealthy. (The Lle'nAxxi'dAq is therefore one of the Llene'di.) 



One time after this a man of the Wolf clan named Heavy Wings 

 (KitcildA'lq !) was out hunting and heard a child cry somewhere in 

 the woods. He ran tow^ard the sound very rapidly, but, although 

 the child's voice seemed to be very close to him, he could not see what 

 caused it. Then he stopped by the side of a creek, tore his clothes off, 

 and bathed in the cold water, rubbing himself down with sand. 

 Afterward he felt very light and, although the voice had gotten some 

 distance away, he reached it, and saw a w^oman with an infant on her 

 back. He pulled the child off and started to run away with it, but he 

 did not escape before the woman had given him a severe scratch upon 

 his back with her long copper fmger nails. By and by he came to a 

 tree that hung out over the edge of a high cliff and ran out to the end 

 of it witii the child in his arms. Then the woman begged very hard 

 for her baby saying, "Give me my baby." As she spoke she put her 

 hand inside of her blanket and handed him a copper. When he still 



