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all up. They burned its face in the tire along with urine. They 

 treated it just as they felt like doing. B}^ and by the boy went up to 

 the hin-tayi'ci he was raising. Before it got longer than himself he 

 shot it in the head. He took off its skin. Then he put [the skin] on a 

 stump. How sharp were its edges! 



When he got home again he jumped quickly out on the floor in the 

 morning. He took his stone ax along in the next road. When he 

 got far up he saw a head sticking up in the road. He said, *' Up with 

 3"0ur ej^es, Kucaqe'Itk"." The head was bent far backward. After 

 he had moved its head backward he cut it off. The place where he 

 took up this head was all full of bones. He threw that also down into 

 the house. They rubbed its face with dung. They did to it as they 

 felt toward it. After that he kept taking his bow and arrows up. He 

 brought all kinds of things into the house for his mothers (i. e., his 

 mother and grandmother). The son of the heron who came to help 



KwAs tin hAs ayatlu's! gA'nAltaq!. Ade' hAs dAuu'guya 



Urine with they were burning in the tire. Tlae way they felt 



his face 



yA'xawe sAtfina'. Wanani'sawe ts!u tcu'net a'ollat yu'yaanA'swAt 



lilie it they were doing At once ai;ain his bow and he went toward the thing he 



it to liim. arrows up with was raising 



hlntayrcf XA'ndi. Tsa'tcUs dohA'ni yfi'nAx koJage'^nawe awatlu'k 



hintavi'ci to. It was only liis own more than was bigger than he shot it 



heiglit 



cakl'nAx yu'yaanA'swAt hintayi'ci. CunfiA^'et daq a'wate. TcIuLe' 



in the head the thing he was raising hintayi'ei All its skin ofT he took. Then 



Atguwu'n ax awate'. Awa'u lax wa'sa yaklu'ts! 5 



stump on he put it. On the edge of it very how it was sharp. 



Ant gu'dawe ts'u tlil'kAt wudjixi'x. Ytl'de wucu'wu ayi'kde tfi'yis 



Home when he got again on the lie jumped. The next road in stone ax 



floor 



a'wacat. Yuda'qedaqe ci'xawe aosite'n qacayi' deyi'knAx cAnacu'* 



he took. Far up when he got he saw a head in the road sticking up. 



" Ki'nde iwii'q Kucaqle'tk"." YutcIagA'xde wuduwaLirxe 3'A'xawe 



" Up with your eyes, Ku(.'aqle'tk'i." Far backward he was bent like it 



wuni' yuqaca'yi. Le kax Ase' was!u', gA'x"de yu'uAsklt. Qiixa'ge 



was like the head. Then off he cut his head, backward when he moved. Bones 



ayu' ye udziga't. DoxA'n awaca't Acayi'. I'qde ts!u uel a'wagiq!. 10 



those so it was all Near him he took up the head. Down again in the he threw it. 



full of. hou.se 



Ha'Lli ti'nawe ayfi'watlus. Ade' adjT'yit hAs ctAnu'guya 3' ax 



Manure with they rubbed his face. As about him they felt like 



ayu' hAs ada'na. Atxawe' tcIuLe' tcu'nf^t ke AlA'ttc. LdakA't-At 



that they did to him. After it then bow and up he always All things 



arrows took. 



duLa'-hAs q!es neJde' j'aAkagadJA'ltc. LAq! duyl'dawe ye quwanu'k 



his mothers for into the he would always take. Heron his son it was thus was doing 

 house 



aga' wiisu' yuca'. WananT'sa qle'wawus duLa', "Gu'nAx a'de 



for came to the wo- At once he asked his mother, "Where (to to it 



him help man. what side) 



