HOW THE RABBIT WENT TO THE SUN. 31 
ground, you must give it (the rope) a slight pull,” she said. And letting him go, she 
sent him back suddenly (to the earth, his home). When he reached home (the earth), 
the Rabbit was hateful. He abused the one who pitied him, he dunged in the bag. 
And pulling (the rope), he shook it a little, and she took her own. And so he went 
homeward carrying the feathers on his back. And he reached home. ‘“O erand- 
mother, I have come home---!” he said (raising his voice). She spoke in wonder. 
She said, “I¢iat¢? i¢iat¢e+!” “Grandmother,” said he, ‘I have brought home the 
feathers on my back.” And she said as follows: “Cause your mother’s brothers to 
make very inany arrows.” And then he said as follows: “Grandmother, for what 
reason?” And she said as follows: “There is a hill that is accustomed to draw 
into its mouth the person going and passing that way.” And he said, “I will see 
that.” “I¢iate’ i¢iat’e+!” said she, ‘sit still.” “No, I will see it at any rate,” said 
he. (Though) she was very unwilling, still he went to see it. At length he arrived 
there. “You are this hill that draws into its mouth. They said that you were there. 
Draw me into your mouth,” said he. He was swallowed for a very long time. Atlength 
he got down (to the bottom). And it happened that (there were) the very dry bones 
of the persons whom it had swallowed formerly, and those who had the flesh dried 
hard and sticking (to the bones), and those, too, very lately dead, brought unto the 
dead, lay with the liver alone made alive. And the Rabbit reached those who were 
alive and quick. ‘Ci-ci-ci-ci! these are few,” said the Rabbit. The fat on the heart of 
qahe-wa¢ahuni was dangling very much. ‘Why! youshould have eaten that,” said he. 
He cut it off with a knife, he cut the heart into pieces with a knife. The hill split 
open of its own accord. And these men who were quick (alive, stirring) became active 
at the very time that the hill split open of its own accord.- And they said as follows: 
“Tet us put the Rabbit at the head of the nation.” “He saved us,” said they. And 
he said, “Seek ye your own lodges, from whatsoever places ye may have come hither.” 
“ Begone ye,” said he (the Rabbit). And soit was. And the Rabbit went homeward. 
“OQ grandmother, | have come back to you,” he said. ‘“I¢iate i¢iat’e+!” said she. 
“O grandmother,” said he, “I have killed the hill that draws them into its mouth, 
of which you told in the past.” “M+! It was said that it were good to kill that one. 
How could you have been his slayer?” said she. ‘“‘ Why! grandmother, I have killed 
him,” said he. “Of the persons that were there, there were those who said, ‘Let us 
make the Rabbit the head of the nation,’ but I was unwilling. I commanded them to 
seek their own lodges,” he said. 
