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to be seen here.” But the Locust said, “ We will see about that. 
If you will do as I do you may have this land; but if you do not do 
as I do I will beat you.” The Locust had two arrows. He stuck one 
of them up through his body and the other one down his mouth. 
Then he took the two arrows and crossed them through his heart. 
He next threw the arrows at the White Bird and said, “ If you do not 
do as I have done I will beat you.” The White Bird took the arrows 
and pretended to do these things, but he only ran the arrows through 
his feathers. 
There was so much water that the Locust could not bring his com- 
panions up out of the reed. So he took a mountain-sheep’s horn and 
broke the land to the north and to the south and to the west and to the 
east, and the water all ran off. The Locust then went back and 
brought his companions out of the hole which the Badger had made. 
But the water still followed them up through this hole. 
Then the chief said, “ Some one has been playing a trick.” He said 
to the Coyote, “ You are always up to some meanness! What have you 
under your blanket?” The Coyote opened his blanket, showed the 
young whale to the chief, and then dropped it down this hole. The 
water immediately went back down the reed into the river. They all 
came out, but could not walk because of so much mud. Then the 
chief prayed to the wind, and the wind dried the mud. 
The Navajos were now changed to people, but they did not know 
what to plant. The Turkey flew up, and the first time he dropped some 
yellow corn ; the second time he dropped some red corn ; the third time 
he dropped blue corn; and the fourth time he dropped all kinds of 
corn. 
The Navajos then made hé’-gins (houses), and the women and 
children played in them while the men worked. Some of them made 
houses in the rocks. 
The chief then said, “ We will see if there will be any deaths up in 
this world. I will throw a big log into the water, and if it sinks, we 
will each one have to die; but if the log floats, we will never die.” 
Then the Coyote tied a string to a rock and said, “I will throw 
this into the water, and if it sinks we will each have to die, but if it 
comes up and floats, we will never die.” 
The chief then said to the Coyote, “ You are always doing some mean 
trick!” 
But the Coyote said, “I cannot help it. If the Navajos never die, 
we will always be the same; but if the Navajos die, we will all be 
