142 DAKOTA GRAMMAR, TEXTS, AND ETHNOGRAPHY. 
Then he said to them, ‘You must change your food.” — But, * What shall we 
eat?” they said. To which he replied; ‘No one should eat men; it is bad food: there 
are plenty of other things good to eat.” And they believed him, and so left off eating 
men. 
Now, in process of time they each had children, and both were boys. Then sud- 
denly the husband thought of his old home and was sad and silent. The wives said 
to him, *‘ Why are you silent?” He said, * Because Iam sad.” “ It is not far away. 
we will go home with you,” they said; and then they said to their mother, ‘‘ Mother, 
burn soft stones. He is sad and we will take him home.” So the old woman burned 
soft stone. Then the wives said, “Call father.” So the mother-in-law stood by the 
side of the water and said; ‘*Old man, come, my daughters will go to the main land.” 
Then immediately something floated up from the water and came to the shore. The 
wives put their husband in a bag. What appeared was the husband of the old 
woman, and the young women were his children. They say it was Unktelii. So when 
the Uyktelii had come to the shore, they filled both his eyes with the burnt stones, 
and on his many horns they piled the baggage, and their husband they placed among 
the baggage. He said, “My daughter, I smeil some live thing.” But they said, 
“Bad old man, what is there to be smelled?” To which he replied **Oh.” Thus they 
set off. Moreover he said, ‘* Let my grandchildren take little sticks and when I move 
slowly let them drum on my horns.” He also said, ‘My daughters, keep a sharp 
lookout.” This he said lest the Thunder should come. For the Thunder and the 
Unktelii are enemies. 
Now, as they went over the water towards the mainland, he said, “My daugh- 
ters, something overshadows me.” He said this because it had clouded up and he 
knew it. But they said, ‘‘ What is there to shade you; it is all clear sky.” In saying 
this they deceived him, for already the clouds had come over. And now when they 
approached the shore the Thunder came nearer. But when they came to land they 
put ashore their husband first and then took off all the baggage; and then they said, 
“Go away, father; the Thunder is near.” ‘Alas! my daughters, I thought so,” he 
said, and started home. But just then the Thunder shot him, and the water all over 
turned to blood. The young man said, ‘ Alas! my poor father-in-law!” But they 
said, ‘ He will not die of that. Although that is done, he never dies.” 
They had now returned to the place whence he went out, but where the people 
had gone was not manifest. So he said, ‘“*Put up the tent here, while 1 go over yon- 
der.” He went towards the spring of water, when lo! he saw a woman with a head 
so large coming. “That is my sister,” he said. She was coming—her head was the 
proper size, but her face was all broken out in sores. ‘* Yes, that was my sister,” he 
said; and as she said, “My brother that was,” he embraced her, and said, ‘ My sis- 
ter, how is it?” ‘My brother,” she said, **Uyktomi has destroyed all our people. 
Me alone he has saved, but has treated me very badly. When I come thus for water 
and go back, he says, ‘Now somebody has been courting you,’ and he sprinkles hot 
ashes on my face, and so my face is all over sores.” Then he said to her, “Go, take 
home water, and if he says that again, say to him, ‘You have destroy«d all the peo- 
ple; who is there alive to say anything to me?’ Then throw the water on him, and 
come hither; I have pitched my tent here.” 
So she took the water home and went in; wherefore again Uyktomi’s face was 
flushed, and he said, ** Now some one has been courting you indeed.” But she replied, 
