HANDSOME-BOY AND AFTER-BIRTH BOY. I49 
father, when he returns, will run against the door and the door will 
shake so that the rattles will make a noise and he will like it.”. They 
arrived at their lodge and placed the snakes upon the doorway. When 
the father came with meat he ran into the doorway and he heard the 
rattles sounding. He was scared. After he placed the meat upon the 
ground in the lodge he went and examined the entrance way and saw 
the snakes there. He was afraid. He said: ‘‘Boys, take these snakes 
away from the entrance. If you leave them on the doorway they will 
smell and rot.’’ Handsome-Boy was willing to do this, but the other 
boy did not like to throw away what he had brought home for his father. 
After the snakes were thrown away they all went into the lodge and had 
something to eat. The man said to them: ‘‘My sons, I must say it, 
and I mean what I say, I do not want you to go to that high hill. The 
people who go there get killed by lightning. The animals who go there 
are struck by lightning. Now I ask you boys not to go there, because 
it is not an animal who kills the people, but it is the lightning in the 
heavens that does the killing.”’ 
The next day after the father had gone away the children began to 
play with their bows and arrows. All at once the strange boy threw down 
his bow and arrows and said: ‘‘Handsome-Boy, let us go to where father 
told us to go.’’ Handsome-Boy said: ‘‘No; he did not say for us to go; he 
told us not to go there.”’ The strange boy kept on. After a while the 
boy consented and they went. The hill was not a large one, but it was 
very high. When they reached the foot of the hill the clouds began to 
fly over the hill and they could see the clouds fall upon the hill. All at 
once the boys heard thunder, and then they saw lightning. Handsome- 
Boy was crying and telling the strange boy that they were lost. The 
strange boy said: ‘‘Stop crying. We must gothere to the side of the hill 
where you see that high tree. That tree is hollow. There on the top 
of the tree is where the four wonderful beings live who send the lightning 
and who make the thunder.’”’ When they got to the tree the thunder 
began to sound and then lightning seemed to strike the tree, and the 
smoke caused by the lightning would come out at the bottom of the 
tree. The strange boy climbed the tree and got on the top. Then he 
reached down and he pulled out a human being. The human being 
was painted red. It was covered with a buffalo robe and a black lariat 
rope was tied around its waist. The boy held the human being by the 
_ arm and said: ‘‘So you are the wonderful being, are you, and what is 
your name?” The wonderful being said: ““My name is Thunder.’’ Then 
he said: ‘‘Now, Handsome-Boy, be ready to catch him.’’ Hethen threw 
him down. Then the strange boy reached down again into the hollow log 
