HANDSOME-BOY AND AFTER-BIRTH BOY. 155 
look at you they will die just the same.’’ The two boys started io go 
through the village. The strange boy started from the west side and 
Handsome-Boy from the east side. As each one went along he saw the 
people dying. Each said as he passed through the village: ‘‘Look at 
me or you will die. If you look at me you will die.’”’ When they 
reached the center of the village all the people had been destroyed. Then 
they went on. They came to a stream of water and there they found 
the tracks of their father where he had tried to cover them up. 
The two boys crossed the stream of water and just as they were about 
to climb up the bank a strange being came out from under a rock and 
said: ‘‘Wonderful boy, I know you. You have great powers, but I am 
like you. I also have great powers. I will not let you pass here and 
kill these people as you have been doing. Your father passed through 
here, but you shall not pass.’’ Then the boy looked at the strange being 
and said: ‘‘Very well; if you have power to kill me, go ahead.” The 
strange being jumped at the boy and the strange being dropped 
away and began to beg of the strange boy not to kill him, and 
that it would let them pass through the under-world. This strange 
being was a Lizard. Then the strange being told the boys that their 
father had passed that way; that he tried to help the man, but as the 
boy had more power than he had he could not do anything. When 
the strange being jumped at the strange boy the strange boy had ‘urned 
his legs into flint stone so that the strange being could not bite him. 
The boys traveled on and came to a village. When they entered 
the village they were more cautious, for they knew that their father was 
in the village. They went through the village, twisting their heads as 
they went and their heads rattled like gourds. They killed the people. 
After a while they came to their father. They had already killed him 
and so they stopped killing the other people. Then the two boys took 
their father and carried him away up on a high hill, then went into the 
timber. They secured four dry willows, four cottonwood, four box- 
elder, and four elm poles. They took these poles up on the high hill. 
First they placed the willows at the bottom; then they placed the cot- 
tonwood crosswise over the willows; then they placed over these the 
box-elder; then they placed overthese theelm. Then they set fire to it, 
and when it began to burn well they took their father and placed him 
on top of the burning timber, and as the smoke went up into the heavens 
the boys lifted themselves up in different directions towards the heavens. 
What they burned this man for no one knows, and where the two boys 
went no one knows. 
