206 THE ¢EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
for her husband. He who came to seek her hated her; he was jealous of her. When 
he was jealous, he took the sword the old man had given him, and brandished it. At 
the fourth time he killed all in the village. He killed the Snake-woman too. The 
youth went homeward. As he went homeward, he came again to those with whom he 
had talked. Behold, they had not told the truth when they promised to stop it. 
“You are indeed disobedient! Though I said that you were to stop it, you have not 
obeyed. You shall surely depart. If you remained here, I am afraid that you would 
treat the human race very wantonly; so you shall depart on high. When you who 
kill men go on high, whenever the day is very warm, you shall make the men cool 
again,” said he, referring to the rain. And he said, ‘Come, depart ye.” And he 
sent them on high. And he went homeward. He reached the big water. “Ho! ven- 
erable man, I am going back to you,” said he. When the old man sat with closed 
eyes, he sent the youth across the water at one stride. He got across, when the old 
man opened his eyes. He came again to the old man. ‘Ho! grandfather, I have 
come back. I talked to the persons to whom you said that I was to talk; but they 
did not obey my words, therefore I sent them on high,” said he. ‘Ho! It will do,” 
said the old man. ‘It was right for you to send them away.” “And this one whom 
I went following after, I reached when she had taken another husband; therefore I 
killed all in the village. I did the deed just as you commanded me to do it,” said he. 
“Yes, it will do. As I desired you to do the deed, so I gave it to you,” said the old 
man, referring to the sword. ‘Come, grandfather, I will go homeward. I wish to 
see my father,” said the youth. He went homeward. The horse was very lame; the 
clothing was very bad; the hat was very bad; it was very much torn. And his father 
regarded him as dead. ‘He died!” thought he. The youth reached home. When 
he reached home at the village, the people did not know him. ‘A very poor person 
has come,” said they. He went to the lodge of the head-chief. Having returned to 
his father’s lodge, he entered. His father, too, did not recognize him. ‘O father, 
itis I. I have come home,” said he. ‘Yes, it is well. You have come home. As I 
thought that you were dead, I sat sorrowful. As you have come home, it is well. 
When I was young, my child, I traveled regularly over large tracts of land. I always 
came home very poor, having given away all that I had, so 1 am a great man. Ho! 
You shall take a wife You shall have a woman,” said he. He said as follows: “O 
father, I love a woman in that place. Is she unmarried?” ‘Yes, she is unmarried,” 
said his father. ‘Then, O father, send them thither.” And his father sent them 
thither. They arrived there. ‘The chief’s son wishes to marry your daughter,” said 
they. And the woman’s father said as follows: ‘As I am poor, I did not think that it 
would be so. But as he pities her, it is well.” And he gave the woman to the man. 
And he married her. The boy had a woman, and he had a lodge. And people from a 
different place rushed on them. When they rushed on them, they attacked each other 
here and there (i. ¢., not in regular order). -And the boy who had just married was 
killed there. (Though there is much more of the myth, I do not remember it.) 
