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deceiving you. You must not do anything he tells you to do.” To this Blood-Clot 
Boy assented. 
Blood-Clot Boy was now gone, and behold an old man with a staff came to meet 
him and said, ‘Whither do you go, my grandchild?” But he replied, “I am just 
walking.” In the meantime a flock of grouse came and alighted. “My grandchild, 
shoot one for me, for | am starving,” the old man said. But he answered, ‘‘No, I 
am going in haste in this direction,” and so he passed on. 
It was now evening, and again an old man with a staff was coming to meet 
him, who sat down just before their meeting, and so he came aud stood. The old 
man said, ‘*Grandchild, although you are in haste, I will fill my pipe.” Then Blood- 
Clot Boy thought, ‘I will smoke with him and then go on;” so he said, ‘* Yes.” While 
they smoked together the darkness came on, and Blood-Clot Boy passed the night 
without sleeping. In the meantime the old man had fallen asleep; and the day was 
breaking. Then the young man thought, “I will sleep a little for it will soon be 
morning,” and so he lay down. 
This old man was the mythic being Uyktomi, but the young man knew it not. 
While Blood-Clot Boy was sleeping very soundly, the old man that was got up and 
said, ““What if in some way you are killed?” Saying which he arose and stood 
astride of him and bent his back and pulled out his limbs and stretched his ears, and 
so made him into a very ugly looking dog. The good clothes of the young man he 
took and put on himself, and his own old clothes he threw away, and so went on with 
him. 
In this way Blood-Clot Boy was made into a dog. It was Unktomi who deceived 
him and did this to him. Then Uyktomi took the dog with him ealling to him, “O 
Blood-Clot Boy; wo-hwo! wo-hwo!” as he went along. And now when Unktomi had 
come to the people whither Blood-Clot Boy had been going, the dog was ashamed and 
kept himself outside of the camp, and Uyktomi alone went among the people. Then 
the people said, ‘The famous Blood-Clot Boy is coming,” and so they rejoiced greatly. 
