216 THE ¢EGIHA LANGUAGE—MYTHS, STORIES, AND LETTERS. 
the lodge, and he took the other homeward. He thrust it headlong into a crack in a 
log. (See Note 1.) The husband reached home. Behold, the woman was dead, and 
she lay with her stomach cut open. He wrapped his wife in a robe, and buried her in 
the ground. The husband reached his home at the lodge. When he reached home, 
behold, a child was crying by the side of the lodge. ‘Alas! my dear little child,” 
said he. Having gone thither, he took his child. Behold, it was a boy. Being a boy, 
he was quick to sit alone. He was very forward in learning to run and to pull the 
bow. “O father, make me asmall bow.” The man made blunt arrows for him. And 
he used to shoot at birds. The father used to teach him, when about to go hunt- 
ing. ‘When the fresh meat is cooked on the fire, and is done, you may eat it; and 
then you may sleep. Never go far away to play,” said he. The father went to hunt. 
At length a boy was approaching suddenly. He was approaching, making a song. 
‘Younger brother, as you have a father, you are standing at home eating rations of 
soup. I, as I have no father, am eating turkey-pease as I walk,” he said in his song. 
“Younger brother, has your father gone?” ‘Yes, elder brother, my father has gone. 
Come, let us eat many of these roasting-pieces. Come,” said the younger. ‘That sit 
ting one is your father, younger brother,” said the elder. “For shame! elder brother, 
my father has gone,” said the younger. At length he went right into the lodge. Hav- 
ing gone in, he ate with him the pieces stuck on sticks to roast. He sat playing with 
his brother. ‘Younger brother, yonder comes your father,” he said. He had gone 
with a sudden rush. ‘He has forgotten everything,” said the elder brother. ‘Why! 
I prepared many roasting-pieces for you heretofore. You have swallowed them!” said 
the father. “I, O father,” said he, having forgotten the words which he wished to say. 
“Ho! I will go hunting again. I will make pieces like those for you, and then I will 
go,” said his father. The boy was approaching again. ‘Has your father gone?” said 
he. ‘Yes, elder brother, my father has gone. Come,” said the younger brother. 
And the boy sat with his younger brother again, eating fresh meat. ‘‘ Younger 
brother, yonder comes your father,” said he. He went homeward again. ‘He has 
forgotten everything,” said the elder brother. ‘“‘Why! I prepared for you heretofore 
a great quantity of food. You have done naught but swallow it,” said his father. “T, 
O father,” said he, forgetting it. ‘I will do so for you again,” said the father.. He 
prepared for him a great many roasting-pieces. The boy was approaching again, after 
the father departed. ‘Has your father gone?” said he. ‘Yes, elder brother, my 
father has gone. Come,” said the younger brother. And the boy sat again with his 
younger brother, eating fresh meat. ‘Younger brother, yonder comes your father,” 
he said. ‘‘Again has he forgotten every thing,” said the elder brother. He had gone 
back again with a very sudden rush. ‘ Why! I prepared for you heretofore a great 
quantity of food. You have done naught but swallow it,” said the father. ‘O father, 
my elder brother comes regularly,” said the boy. “Alas! my dear little child! My 
child, when your mother was pregnant with you, Two-faces killed her. As you were 
cut out of her, you grew up very poor. When your elder brother comes, you shall take 
hold of him. You shall say, ‘O father, I have hold of my elder brother,” said he. 
Well, when it was the fourth time, the boy was approaching. ‘Has your father gone?” 
said he. ‘Yes, elder brother, my father has gone. Come,” said the younger brother. 
The father had changed himself into a buffalo neck that was dried very hard. He lay 
inside the door. ‘Elder brother, let us hunt lice for each other,” said the younger. 
