54 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
The man said to the sleeper: ‘“‘I am the Water-Monster you saw. 
I am a medicine-man. I am teaching you all the things that are to 
happen. I am teaching you many things which your people will have 
to do. The thing which you lack to place upon the head of the sea-ser- 
pent isa feather. The bird flies up in the sky, and | will teach you how 
to catch it. You must go upon some high mound, dig a hole on top of 
the mound just as if you were digging a grave; scatter green limbs over 
the hole; kill several rabbits, skin them, and place them upon the limbs. 
You must then crawl into the hole and lie there. First the magpies will 
come to taste of the meat, then the crows, then the bird that flies high 
in the sky will see these birds eating and it will swoop down and light, 
close to the place. It will hop around until finally it will get on top 
of the hole, when you must reach and grasp it by both legs. After this 
pull it into the hole and wring its neck after you have taken itin. That 
is where you will get the feather to place upon the water-monster.”’ The 
next day the man went upon a high hill and for several days he worked 
around until he had the place prepared just as he was told. - After he 
had placed the rabbits on top he got into the hole and lay there. First 
he noticed the magpies flying around, then the crows, and suddenly he 
thought he heard wind coming down from the sky. When this hap- 
pened the magpies and crows scattered away. The eagle came close to 
the hole. When it was on top the man reached out, caught both legs 
of the bird and pulled it in. 
For several days he lay there killing eagles. At last he took from 
the tail the one feather he wanted to place upon the head of the water- 
monster. The monster appeared again to the man in a dream and gave 
him a pipe-stem. It told him to string some of the eagle feathers and 
tie them upon a stick. He told him that he could use the pipe-stem and 
the eagle feathers in compelling other people to give him presents. The 
monster was not satisfied with what he had done for the man. He then 
told the man that he had killed some eagles. He told him to go over the 
country and keep on traveling until he should find the nest of an Eagle. 
The man went into the timber and looked and looked. At last he came 
to a big cottonwood tree and there he heard the whistlings of Eagles. 
He noticed that the mother was a Brown Eagle and that the father was 
a White Eagle. There were several young ones in the nest. The man 
looked up at the nest and cried. For a long time he cried and finally 
the Brown Eagle said to the man, ‘‘Why do you cry so?” The man said, 
“There is something that I want, and I want you to help me.” The 
Eagle said: ‘Tirawa gave you a pipe. Take it and go. Tirawa will 
help you.”’ The man continued to cry and the Brown Eagle told the 
