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mortal man will not be able to grow forth,” he told them; *'In this wise 
you are to cease from your contests,” he told them. 
“Truly, that is right!” said his companions. 
For in fact these people were accustomed to stake their followers; but 
now that he had overcome them and prohibited it, they obeyed him. For 
they feared him; there was no one now who could challenge him, since he 
had defeated the one among them who had most spirit power. So now 
these people lived in peace. 
Then at one time, as he went forth and sat down on a hilltop, he forgot 
to follow his custom of using the stone as a seat. Presently he felt some- 
thing crawl in here, a rattlesnake; it was yon old woman 
whose children he had wiped out, was doing this to him. For, “Never sit 
on the bare ground!” she had told him. Then, try as he might to get the 
creature out, he could not get it out. At last his comrades came to whore 
he was. As thus he was tormented by that creature which was trying to 
kill him, at last many came to where he was, urging him to try to kill that 
rattlesnake, for dearly those people loved him. The creature kept going 
higher and higher; at last it got into his head here. And when it was here, 
he began to be delirious, as it was killing him. He asked for something to 
use in the way of a knife. It was given to him. Then he cut a piece away 
from here, trying to make a hole in his head, and at last succeeded. 
“Here, father, the rattlesnake is tormenting me and means to kill me! 
Come near to me!” he said to his father. 
Really, the latter came near. Those people went down from the hill- 
top, because they were too hot. Presently it came climbing out, forced to 
extremity by the heat. So his life was saved. Then, when he rubbed his 
head like this, it healed. 
Then, there stood his father, saying to him, “Alas and alas! No won- 
der, seeing how foolish was your mother who took you away with her, so 
that there was no one to instruct you, no wonder that you went about 
making a ruin of things at large, and that you are a fool. You will con- 
tinue to make a greater and greater mess of things, my son. It will be 
better if I take you home with me. You are too much of a fool. If you 
continue to go about as you have, no good will come of it. I do not wish 
such things to be,” his father told him. 
So they went home, his father taking him aloft to where he dwelt; and 
from that time on he stayed with his grandfather. 
That is the end of the sacred story. 
(22) He Who Carried the Old Woman 
Sakewew 
sdkdwdw. 
kitahtawd nistiwak ayisiyiniwak, nlsu ndpdwak. ohi ndpdwa ummiw 
aw Iskwdw, dkwah pdyak namuy dtuskdw wnmimaw. misdskwat iitinam ; 
aydw, d-saskahuhtdt uhtsi. dkwah ustdsa mdtsiyiwa, mltsiwin dh-toiamdkut- 
sik. 
kitahtawd awa ndpdw ustdsimdw, mistah dh-aydtsik mltsiv in, “ hd, 
ni^m, mahtih nka-ntunawdw awiyak kit~dmstdwiyahk, kimis'i naw kit- 
