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"No, let US wait here until that feast is over." x'Vfterward the boys 

 went down and watched the people come out with their faces all 

 blackened. They stood at a corner, but, as this dance is always 

 given in the evening, they were not seen. 



Then the head chief's son thought, "I wish my younger brother 

 would come out," and sure enough, after all of the other people had 

 gone, his younger brother came out. lie called to his brother say- 

 ing, "Come here. It is I," but the child was afraid and ran into 

 the house instead. Then the child said to his mother, "My brother 

 and his friend are out here." "Why do you talk like that?" asked 

 his mother. "Don't you know that yoiu" brother died some time 

 ago?" And she became very angry. The child, however, per- 

 sisted, saying, "I know his voice, and I know him." His mother 

 was now very nuich disturbed, so the boy said, "I am going to go 

 out and l)ring in a piece of liis shirt." "Go and do so," said his 

 mother. "Then I will believe you." 



When the boy at last brovight in a piece of his brother's shirt his 

 mother was convinced, and they sent word into all of the houses, 

 first of all into that of the second boy's parents, but they kept both 

 with them so that his parents could come there and rejoice over 

 him. All of the other people in that village also came to see them. 



57. THE BOY AND THP: GIANT 



At a certain place in the interior lived a manly little boy who was 

 very fond of hunting. He would take his lunch and go off hunting 

 very early in the morning and stay all day, bringing home two or 

 three porcupines in the evening. One morning he started earlier 

 than usual and came upon a giant as tall as the trees. He was 

 very nuich frightened and ran away with the big man in pursuit. 

 As the giant was not a very fast runner, the boy kept ahead of him 

 until he came to a sort of cave like a house at the foot of a hill and 

 entered it. When the big man saw this, he said, "Come here, my 

 grandson." The boy refused, and the giant continued his entreaties 

 for a long time. At last the boy consented to go with him, so the 

 giant said, "Get inside of my shirt. I will carry you that way." 

 Then the boy vaulted in there, and they started olT. 



After they had gone along in this manner for some time, the boy, 

 who had his head out, saw a very small bird called old-person (LAg"- 

 qa'k!") and said, "Grandpa, there is a bird I would like to have." 

 Then the big man stopped and let him down, and he shot the bird 

 with an arrow and put it into his bosom, after which he crawled 

 back into the big man's shirt. But now this bird had increased the 

 boy's weight so much that the giant could scarcely move along. At 

 every step he took he sank deep into the moss. Wlien the boy 

 noticed this, he said to himself, "How is it that, since I picked up 



