HANDSOME-BOY AND AFTER-BIRTH BOY. 15. 
not want you to go. When I tell you not to go to a place, you go any- 
way. I willask you to go to that place to-morrow.” The next day the 
man cooked much meat and he told the boys that he would be away for 
some time and for them not to worry about him. Before he started he 
said, “‘Now, boys, go to that place, for there the people dwell who killed 
your mother.’’ The boys heard what their father said. Then they 
went away to play. The father went off, but he intended to run away. 
He watched the boys. The boys never went to the place. Then he 
said to himself: ‘‘I told the boys to go, but they are not going. I do not 
understand them.’’ Then the man tried to run away, but he found that 
the strange boy knew that he was trying torun away,so he gave it up. 
In the evening he returned to the lodge and here he found the boys. The 
next morning the man said: ‘‘Boys, I am going hunting. You must not 
go to that place.” Then he went away on a hunt. 
The boys took their bow and arrows and went away and played upon 
the ground. After a while the strange boy threw the bow and arrows 
upon the ground and said: ‘‘Handsome-Boy, you remember what our 
father said about going to that place. Let us now go and see what kind 
of people they are. Our father said they were the people who had killed 
our mother.”” Handsome-Boy would not go. He said that his father 
had said that they should not go there, for the people who were there were 
ugly and dangerous. But the strange boy said: ‘‘Let us go.” Finally 
the boy gave in and they went. They started out on the run to the 
place. They kept running toward the timber. Once in a while Hand- 
some-Boy tried to stop, but the strange boy was so glad to go to the 
place that he kept coaxing the boy on. 
After a while they got into the timber. They walked through the 
timber for some time. Soon they came to a place where the trees seemed 
dead. The leaves were yellow. They walked on until they came to an 
opening and there they saw a grass-lodge. They stood still, and one 
of the sharp-elbow people said: ‘‘Our grandchildren are here. They 
have come to visit us. Place the kettle upon the fire and put some water 
in it, so that we may boil some meat for them to eat.’’ Handsome-Boy 
began to cry. The strange boy whispered to him and said: ‘“‘Stop 
crying. If you cry these people will kill us. If you keep still they will 
not kill us.’ Then the people in the grass-house began to get ready to 
bring the boys in. The strange boy then told Handsome-Boy that when 
‘they were taken into the grass-lodge they were to be given seats on the 
north side of the fireplace. The sharp-elbow people were all to be sit- 
ting around watching them. The strange boy said: ‘‘When they get 
ready to kill us, then I will touch you. As soon as | touch you, you 
