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move as if he were flying. After a while the strange boy flew up, for 
he had turned into a goose. The other boy began to cry. The goose 
which was flying overhead said: ‘‘Do as I did, you coward. Move 
your arms. Fly up asI did.” After a while Handsome-Boy also flew 
up and the bull-boat went down into the river, came up again, and went 
back to the bank. The boys flew over the dry land and turned into human 
beings again. Then the strange boy said: ‘‘Handsome-Boy you are a 
coward. WhenI tell youtodo anything you must doit. If you donot 
do what I tell you, you will get lost and you will be killed.” 
They went home and told their father that they had ridden in the 
boat. The father said: ‘‘Children, 1 am glad that you did not get killed. 
I am glad that you came back. You must be carefulin your wanderings 
over this country. There is one place where I do not want you to go. 
It is near the river. There is a steep bank there and the bottom of 
the bank is the place where people do not dare to go.’ 
The next morning after the man had gone away to hunt the strands 
boy said: ‘‘Handsome-Boy, you remember what our father said about 
going to that place. Letusnowgo.’’ But Handsome-Boy said: ‘‘Father 
said not to go there.’’ Then the strange boy said: ‘“‘We must go.” 
Handsome-Boy did not care to go. The strange boy said: ‘“‘Give me 
back my hair. I must go back to my grandmother’s.” Then Hand- 
some-Boy had to give up and go with the strange boy. They came to 
the steep bank and they looked down and there in the bottom 1 were 
many snakes. 
Handsome-Boy began to cry, but the strange boy said: ‘“‘Oh, stop 
crying. Those things are nothing and we shall kill some of them and 
take them home to our father.’’ The strange boy then told Handsome- 
Boy to sit down. He put his hands upon his legs and upon his feet. 
Then he said: ‘‘Now stand up.”’ When the boy stood up he felt that 
his legs and feet were very heavy, for the strange boy had covered his 
legs with flint stone. Then the strange boy began to stamp upon the 
ground. When he started to do this the soles of his feet were like the 
skin of a horned toad. His legs were covered with the shells of a turtle. 
They walked down to where the snakes were and they stepped upon the 
heads of the snakes. When the snakes tried to bite them their teeth 
could not go through them. They killed four of the largest snakes with 
rattles on. These they took up on the hill and skinned them, leaving 
the rattles upon the skins. Then the strange boy said: ‘‘Handsome- 
Boy, we will place two of these snakes at the bottom of the doorway, one 
in the middle and one on the top. When we play we will run against the 
doorway. Then these rattles will rattle and it will sound nice. Our 
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