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As it opened wide its jaws to draw him in, he stood still in place. No 
matter how much it opened its jaws, it could not make him come that 
way. 
“Courage, Great Serpent! Open your jaws! Come out a bit farther!" 
he said to it. 
Though he continued to encourage it to draw him in, it could not get 
hold of him. It kept coming out farther and farther, and he said to it, 
“Courage!” and it stretched its jaws as far as it could; he doubled himself 
up and swung his elbows out at both sides, like this. He cut the Great 
Serpent all to strips. Whom did he see but his brother, his uncle, and his 
father, coming out from there! For he had slain that creature; so now he 
brought them home. They went home; at nightfall they arrived at their 
dwelling. 
Then, the next morning, thus spoke that younger lad; “Now then, 
you are too foolish, my elder brother. It seems that you have no manitou 
power; you are always being defeated. It will be better if I tell you what 
I have planned." 
“Very well." 
“Well then, my father, as for you and my mother: soon there will be 
mortal men; in future time you will stay on the hills; you will be tall; 
thorn-trees you will be called,” he told his father and his mother, “because 
you are good beings. — And you, my uncle, over here in the place of the 
setting sun, there you will have your habitation. ‘The man with the 
beaded head has taken pity on me,' a man will say; in his sleep he will 
see you, my uncle. — And as for us: here, a little ways ahead there will be 
small stars; they will be near to each other; such will we be, my elder 
brother and I,” he said to them; “There, that is the way of it; be off!” 
Accordingly, those others went off. When they came to a hill, he and 
his wife, they threw themselves upon the ground; they turned into thorn- 
trees. And those boys went up aloft and turned into stars. 
And so this is the end of the sacred story. 
(20) Flute- Bearer 
Coming-Day 
kd-klsikdw-pihtukdw. 
pdyak as dma otdnaw dh-misdk, dh-mdh-matawdtsik, dh-motutsik. 
Mtahtawd pdyak awa iskwdw pakwatam, dh-kitimdkdyimdt u^misah. 
“ nka-sipwdhtahdw ; ta-kakwd-uhpikiw, ” itdyihtam. 
dh-tipiskdyikj sipwdhtdw, dh-tapa^L 
“ mdskots, — ndhtdwiy nikdwiy dh-nipahihtsik, dkwah nipdyakun 
ni^mis, — asitsi mdskots mdtawdhkih, dkwah nika-nipahikawin, ” itdyih- 
tam ; dyako uhtsi k-d-sipwdhtdL 
nistwdw dh-nipdt, dkutd miywdsiniyiw askiy, misiwd d-sakdyik. 
“ a/i, mdskots ota nam dwiyak nik-otihtikj ” itdyihtam ; “ dkusi tit- 
dhpikiw ni^mis, ” itdyihtam. 
tdpwd dkutah usdhtdw vrikih. kiyipa lasihtdw wiki, dkwah usdhidw 
astis uhtsi tdpakwdna, d-mh-kakwd-nipahdt wdpuswa^ “ dkutowahk piku 
nik-oh-pimdtisindn nisimis, ” dh-itdyihtah. tdpwd tdpakwdw. dkwah mih- 
tah mistahih dwatdw. dkw dh-tipiskdyik, d-lah-nipdtsik, dh-wdpahk, ndtam 
utdpakwdnah. nlsu nipahdw wdpuswah. 
