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“Playing about here and there/' 
His father forbade him to do that. “You have not brought to grief 
any of those who went with you?” 
“Not one; I have brought them all home.” 
“Then you may as well take care of them,” said an old man. 
For his people there were starving. So they told that they had much 
food over at the place where they had gone. Then the old man called out 
at the other lodges that the people were to fetch food from the place where 
the children had been. So they set out. They really brought a great deal. 
When they arrived, “But how did you manage to have so much food?” 
“Because my snow-dart killed game.” 
“Very well, then your name shall be Little-Snow-Dart.” 
Then again, at another time the two children threw snow-darts and 
followed them. After six nights on the way they reached their snow-darts. 
There they visited some other lodges. The report went round that they 
had come. 
One old man said, “Little-Snow-Dart has come here. He has great 
spirit-power. Do not attack him; you will not be able to defeat him.” 
Then, when summer had come, “Now mortal man is to come into the 
generations of his life. In the time ahead he will make use of you, that 
one who is now to come into life. In this way he will be able to live. He 
will make use of you. It is not good that any longer you should eat one 
another.” 
Some were bears and some were buffalo who lived there in the same 
village of tents but killed each other. 
“And so in different places of the woods you shall have your place of 
abiding,” he said to the bears. “And you others shall dwell on the prairie. 
You shall eat grass and herbs. And now I shall return to my home.” 
So they went back home. They arrived at their camp. 
“And where did you go this time?” 
“Oh, I have been playing here and there.” 
“Now, stop it; never again go about to play. For you will bring the 
children to grief wandering about in this needless way; not always will you 
defeat people.” 
“No. For all time now I have defeated them all, with the thought of 
those who are to come into life. For mortal men will not be able to live 
properly, if you continue like this in your evil pursuit of one another. 
Therefore, you shall have your abode up aloft. And I shall dwell in the 
Rocky mountains. For all time I shall take care of mortal man, that one 
who is to come into life. Only so will the generations of man be able to 
live. For I have taken pity on mortal man, who can never roam about 
since you affright him with the fear that you will bring him to destruction. 
Only in this way do I see a good future course for this earth.” 
Accordingly they departed in various directions. He too departed; 
you can see him standing in the Rocky mountains; pleasant is their scent; 
fir-cones they are called. That is he who of yore overcame all the beings 
of evil power. 
That is all. 
