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chief proposed to stab his wife, kill her, and then restore her to life. When he had 
stabbed her and killed her he blew his whistle over her to bring her to life, but she 
lay there dead. 
He was thereupon much enraged. Then Cheezhon’s mother came home and told 
him that in the morning they planned to put him in a bag and cast him in the water. 
But he laughed and said, ‘* Mother, that is nothing.” 
It came to pass the next day at noon the chief came and took Cheezhon home 
with him, and commanded his soldiers to put him into a bag and east him into the 
water. And when they had placed him in the bag and carried him along and were 
now near to the place, the chief said, ‘Call them and take him home.” 
Just then Cheezhon heard some one calling sheep, whereupon he cried out, 
“T do not want to live with the chief’s daughter! I do not want to live with the 
chief’s daughter!” So the shepherd came and said, ‘“* What do you mean?” Said 
Cheezhon, ‘‘ They say I must live with a daughter of the chief, and I am not willing; 
nevertheless, they are taking me there.” The shepherd replied, “I will go.” So they 
tore open the bag, released Cheezhon, and bound the other man whom they put in 
the bag. 
In the meantime the flock of sheep was scattered, and Cheezhon, having his lib- 
erty, drove them to the woods and there kept them. 
After some time he brought the whole flock back to the chief’s house and said, 
“Tf you had thrown me far out into the water there would have been blue horses and 
oxen with horns of gold.” Then the chief said, ‘Are you indeed telling the truth?” 
And Cheezhon said, “I am indeed telling the truth.” Then the soldiers, as fast as 
they were able, cast themselves into the water (to find the blue horses and the oxen 
with horns of gold). And the chief also, they say, threw himself into the water and 
was drowned. Thus Cheezhon saved himself, 
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