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home first, then we came back, and were all around here last night.' 

 The old woman asked, 'Was my daughter in the grave your 

 mother?' — 'Yes,' said the boy, 'and Hino used to come and 

 see my mother.' 



" The old woman believed him ; and as he grew he used to make 

 a noise like thunder ; and whenever Hino came into the neighbor- 

 hood, he would go out and thunder, and help his father. He was 

 Hinohoawak, son of Hino. 



"After some time he asked his grandmother where his six aunts 

 were, and his grandmother answered, ' There is an old woman, 

 and her son Yeq-hdjiho-wa-wak, whose house is far away, and 

 they live by playing dice and betting. Your aunts went one by 

 one with a company of people, played, were beaten, and had their 

 heads cut off. Many men and women have gone to the same place 

 and lost their heads.' Hinohoawak said, ' I will go, too, and kill 

 that woman and her son.' The old woman tried to keep him at 

 home, but he would not stay with her. He told her to make two 

 pairs of moccasons for him. He was very ragged and dirty, and 

 she made the moccasons, and got him the skin of a flying squirrel 

 for a pouch. 



" He set off to the west, and soon he came to a great opening 

 where there was a large bark house with a pole in front of it, and 

 on the pole a skin robe. He saw boys playing ball in the opening, 

 and went on a side-path and heard a great noise. By and by the 

 people saw him, and one of them said, ' I don't know where that 

 boy comes from.' 



" The old people were betting, and the boys playing ball. Soon 

 an old ijian came up to Hinohoawak and gave him a club ; and he 

 played so well that the old man came again and said, ' We want 

 you to play dice : we will bet with you, all the people.' A bowl 

 was placed on an elk-skin under the pole. The woman and her 

 son were there, and the people were standing around. 



" Hinohoawak answered, ' I don't know the game ; ' but the old 

 man said, ' We will risk our heads on you.' So he followed the 

 old man. He saw a white stone bowl as smooth as glass. The old 

 woman was sitting there on the elk-skin ready to play, and Hino- 

 hoawak knelt right down by the bowl. She said, ' You play first.' 

 — 'No,' said he, 'you play first.' So she took the dice, — round 

 ones, made out of peach-stones, — blew on them, and threw them 

 into the bowl, which she shook. The dice flew up into the air, and 

 all turned into crows, cawing as they went out of sight. After a 

 while they came down, cawing, and turned back into peach-stones 

 as they touched the bowl. The old woman was to play three times, 

 and must get seventeen. She threw three times, but got nothing. 

 " Then Hinohoawak, to win, took dice out of his pouch of flying- 

 squirrel skin. The old woman wanted him to use her dice, but he 

 wouldn't touch them. He shook the bowl, and ducks flew up. 

 They went very high, and all the people heard them as they rose. 

 When they touched the bowl they were peach-stones again, and 

 counted ten. Then Hinohoawak shook the bowl again, and called, 

 ' Game ! game ! ' but the old woman called out, ' No game ! ' Back 

 they came and counted another ten. He tried the third time, and 

 made ten more. He had won. 



" Then he called the people to come and see him cut off the 

 heads of the old woman and her son. ' No,' said the old woman, 

 'you must play agahi. Here is my son. You must play ball with 

 him ; and if he loses, we shall both forfeit our heads.' Then Hinohoa- 

 wak asked the old man what he thought. The people, seeing how 

 smart he was, said, ' Play ; ' and he went to the ball-ground ragged 

 and poor-looking. There were but two playing, one on each side. 

 Then Hmohoawak jumped, and knocked the club out of his an- 

 tagonist's hand. Then Yage-hdji-ho-wak ran for his club, but be- 

 fore he could get it back, Hinohoawak had sent the ball through the 

 barrier. This was repeated seven times, and Hinohoawak won the 

 game. ' Now,' said he to all the people, 'you can have the heads 

 of the old woman and her son.' The two heads were cut off, and 

 the boys played with the old woman's head over the whole field. 

 ' Now,' said Hinohoawak, ' I am going to bring my grandmother 

 to this place, and we must all come here to stay, and have this long 

 house to live in.' All went home to their houses ; and as he went, 

 he sang praises of himself, and his grandmother heard him on his 

 way. He told her what he had done, and said, ' We must all go 

 there and live in that nice house and ncid.' She got provisions 



ready, and they went. It took them a long time to reach the place. 

 All the others came too, and built houses around in the field. 

 When all the people had settled down, Hinohoawak went out and 

 called them to the council-house to have a dance. After they had 

 finished the dance, all went home. 



"The grandmother put away her old blanket, and began to dress. 

 She put on the clothes left by the old woman who lost her head, 

 and soon she looked like a young woman, and they lived happily. 

 After a while, Hinohoawak went off with Hino, his father, and 

 staid all winter with him. 



" In the spring the old woman was uneasy in mind. She heard 

 thunder in the west, and pretty soon her grandson came to the 

 house, and she was very glad to see him. 



•' ' Where have you been ? ' she asked. ' At the great mountain 

 far off in the west. I have been with my father, helping the nations 

 and protecting men.' 



" After that he staid at home all summer. Once in a while he 

 would go away when it began to storm, but he came back again 

 when the weather was good. He lived a long time in this way, 

 till at last he said to his grandmother, ' I have an uncle living in 

 the west. Some witch stole him from you. I must go and find 

 him.' And so he went to the west to search for his uncle. He 

 went on till he came to a house in which he saw a woman sitting 

 by a fire, with her head on her hands. She wouldn't answer when 

 he asked where his uncle was. By and by he went out, took 

 the war-club from his pouch, knocked her on the head, and killed 

 her. 



" When he had killed the woman, he went out and walked all 

 around the house, mourning, and looking for his uncle. He looked 

 into the trees, but couldn't see any one ; he looked upon the ground, 

 but couldn't find him. By and by he came to a large slippery-elm 

 tree, and the great roots held down a man. His head came out 

 between two roots on one side, and his feet between two more on 

 the other. The tree stood right on the middle of his body, and he 

 was calling to his nephew to give him a smoke. And the nephew 

 said, ' Oh, poor uncle ! I'll give you a smoke pretty soon.' 



" Then he kicked the tree over, saying. ' Rise up, uncle ; ' and 

 the uncle rose up and was well. Then Hinohoawak took out his 

 pouch and gave the old man a smoke. The uncle was very much 

 pleased and strengthened. Then he told his nephew how the 

 woman had beguiled him to go with her, pretending that she 

 wanted to marry him ; and when she had him at her house, she 

 ate him up, and put his bones under the elm-tree. Then both went 

 home to the long house. The old grandmother was surprised and 

 glad. All lived happily there till one day when Hinohoawak went 

 off in a storm. When the storm was over, he brought home a 

 wife. 



" When he went off after that with a storm, his wife was uneasy. 

 She didn't know where he was. Hinohoawak had brought her 

 such a long distance home on his back in the storm. 



" After a time she had a son ; and when the boy was large 

 enough to run about, the old man, Hinohoawak's uncle, whose 

 bones had lain under the elm-tree, began to teach him, and soon 

 he was able to make a noise like thunder. One day the boy fol- 

 lowed his mother out of the house. They had a little dog, and, as 

 the boy was running after it, somebody seized him and rushed 

 away ; but the dog ran after him, managed to catch hold of his 

 feet, pulled off his moccasons, and carried them home. This was 

 the first indication the woman had that her boy was gone. Hino- 

 hoawak was off with a storm at the time, and when he came home 

 his wife asked him if he had taken the boy. ' No,' said he. ' Oh, 

 he is lost ! ' cried she. ' Oh. no ! he is all right,' said Hinohoawak. 

 ' He has many relations around the world, uncles and cousins.' 

 " The boy staid away all winter. 



" When the winter was over, he came home one day with his 

 father. Then Hinohoawak said to the people of his family, ' We 

 must all move away and live with my father.' The old woman 

 said, ' No, we cannot go, it is so far, and I am so old.' — 'I'll carry 

 you there in a little while,' said the grandson. Then Hinohoawak 

 began to thunder, and lightning flew around. The house was torn 

 to pieces, and blazed up in flames. All the rocks and houses in 

 the opening were broken to bits. Hinohoawak and all of his people 

 rose up in the air. The east wind began to blow and carry them 



