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When she ceased crying, she said to him, “Grandson, surely you are 
very naughty. It was because you were in a miserable state that I took 
pity on you and befriended you, and here you are doing away with all my 
children! These are my children, grandson. In the end I may be led to 
do you some harm. You have angered me, even though I felt pitying 
kindness for you when you did me harm and greatly laid waste my garden- 
plants; I loved and cherished these my poor children whom you have all 
destroyed. Be off; go away! I do not want to bring you to ruin, poor 
creature that you are,” she said to him. 
Accordingly, he arose, went out of the lodge, and departed. He went 
off in some direction, he knew not whither. Wherever he was at nightfall, 
he lay down, not choosing where. When day broke, he went on. At noon 
he saw a tipi in a place where there were many small ravines. Thither he 
went. He saw that the tipi was covered with painted symbols. 
When he reached it, “Oho, come in, come in, Sun-Child!” a young man 
called out to him. 
When he entered, what did he see but some youths sitting round the 
sides of the lodge, splendidly dressed, but wearing only striped robes! 
When “Over here!” they said to him, he did not heed their invitation. 
“This will do, right here!” he answered them, seating himself by the 
door-flap. 
Then soon, “Dear me, we are indecently slow about serving food to 
Sun-Child! And just now we thought it so glad an event that he came to 
us!” said one. 
“Goodness, but what can we give him to eat?” 
“^Vhy, quickly roast a buffalo-stomach to be served well done and 
piping hot! Quickly roast it done.” 
So one put on the roast. Very soon he took it from the fire. 
“Dear me, surely it cannot be done?” said another; “You had better 
bite off a piece to try! Surely you will find it can’t be cooked done!” 
He too bit off a piece. 
“It is not done,” said this one too; “Just see for yourself!” 
He gave it to another, and each took a bite next to where the other 
had bitten. When they got through, these youths had bitten off morsels 
all round the edge of the gizzard. 
By this time yonder old woman had set out to come here, the old 
woman from whom Sun-Child had parted when he came, for she knew that 
Sun-Child had reached her sons’ abode. For these ten youths were that 
old woman’s sons. 
At last all these youths had taken bites. 
“It is cooked done,” they said. 
“Ho, so now let him eat!” they said of Sun-Child. 
He took his knife and cut all around the edge of the stomach. When 
he had pared off the edge, suddenly he threw the trimming into the fire. 
At once he fled out of the lodge, as they cried, “Sun-Child is killing us all!” 
Indeed, he had killed them all. For they were rattlesnakes. He had done 
away with them all. And so he fled. 
And now yonder old woman came in pursuit, chasing Sun-Child. 
“Now you have really angered me, Sun-Child, doing me so many 
griefs and now destroying all my sons!” 
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