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with ticks instead of lice. He will say that when you take the lice from 
his head you must bite them with your teeth. As you take the ticks off 
throw them away and at the same time bite a hackberry, so that it will 
make a noise. When you have taken off all the ticks, Long-Tongue 
will lose his life just for a short time. You must go to the entrance and 
say, ‘Grandfather, move,’ and the entrance stone will move. Gather 
the ticks and throw them outside. Thencome in again and say ‘Grand- 
father, close up the lodge.’ The stone will move into place. Do asI say, 
for I have something to do with the sacred bundle upon the wall, for 
my skin isin the sacred bundle.’”’ The next day Long-Tongue came back. 
As soon as he came into the lodge he said, ‘‘Woman, take some lice from 
my head and eat them.” The girl took Long-Tongue’s head upon her 
lap and began to take the ticks from his head. She would take a hack- 
berry in her hand, take off a tick, throw it to one side, then put a hack- 
berry into her mouth and crack it. She kept taking off the ticks and 
throwing them away and cracking the hackberries. When she had all 
the ticks off his head Long-Tongue fell over and died. The girl went to 
where the ticks were scattered, gathered them up, and carried them to 
the entrance and said, ‘‘Grandfather, move.’’ The stone moved and she 
went out and threw the ticks away. She went back into the lodge and 
said, ‘‘Grandfather, close up the lodge.’’ The stone moved and closed 
the lodge. After a while Long-Tongue was alive again. Early the next 
morning Long-Tongue said: ‘‘Woman, I am going far into the country. 
I shall be away for several days. When I return I shall kill you.” 
The day before when the Raven was talking to the girl he told her 
that when Long-Tongue should speak of going a long distance for her 
to tell Long-Tongue to go first and kill a buffalo and bring all of it to the 
lodge so that she might make tallow from the bones. The girl told Long- 
Tongue what the Raven had told her to say, and Long-Tongue said it 
was well and that he would do so. She told Long-Tongue that she 
wanted to have something to do; that when she had nothing to do she 
became lonesome. Long-Tongue went out and was gone but a short 
time when he returned to the lodge, bringing with him a whole buffalo. 
The girl began to skin the buffalo and to take off the meat piece by piece. 
Long-Tongue then said: ‘‘Woman, I am going now. You will be busy 
with the meat. Do not try to run away while I am gone, for I shall 
follow you no matter where you go, or how you go.’”’ Long-Tongue went 
out and was gone. The girl then made a big fire and began to make 
tallow. While she was doing this the Raven came and said: ‘“‘Here is 
now the chance for you to get away from here. Make the tallow and 
I will tell you what to do.”” The girl kept on making the tallow. The 
