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the valley. He went to it and there he saw a tipi. He went in and there 
was aman, woman, and four girls, and his wife, Young-Duck, who had 
covered herself up so that Hawk could not see her. She had told the 
people not to tell him that she was there; so that when he asked about 
her they said they had not seen her. 
The man kept asking and the youngest girl pointed to the place where 
she was lying. The man looked, and he saw his wife’s feet. He reached 
for her, but she would not let him see her. Hewas glad tofind her. She 
said: ‘‘ You can not see me, for Iam changed.’”’ The man insisted upon 
seeing her and she finally gave up. He saw that from her waist up she 
was an old woman. Her ears hung down. She told him that the old 
woman had bewitched her and that she was now changed, and would 
always live that way; and that he must tell her father and mother not 
to weep for her; and she also told her husband not to weep for her. 
She said: ‘‘You see what I am now. You will marry again some girl 
who will be good to you, but first you are to lift me upinthesky. Put 
me upon your back and fly high, then drop me. Then watch, and where 
I drop, fly there and find me and you will see what sort of creature I am.” 
The man stayed near her all night. Although she was changed he did 
not care, for he had hunted for her and had found her. She was also 
very thin, for all this time she had eaten only ground beans. The next 
day they went out together and climbed the same hill that Hawk had 
rested on the day before. He turned into a Hawk again and the girl 
climbed on his back, and said: ‘“‘Fly. You are strong; I am not heavy.” 
The Hawk flew up in the heavens and gave a little turn, and the girl fell. 
The Hawk watched and flew where the girl fell; and there he found her, 
and she was a clam shell already open. The outside of the shell was 
rough, like the old witch’s skin that had been on the girl. The inside 
was smooth and delicate like the skin of the girl. 
46. THE POOR BOY WHO TURNED INTO AN EAGLE.’ 
In the beginning there were no people upon the earth. The stars 
in the heavens wanted to put people upon the earth and show them how 
to live. Morning-Star spoke and said; ‘‘Put two people down there on 
the earth among the animals, and see what they will do.’ The stars 
in the heavens agreed to put two people upon the earth. Moon agreed 
to send her woman down, and Morning-Star agreed to send his younger 
brother. The boy, although younger, called the woman his niece. The 
‘Told by Cheyenne-Chief, Skidi. The story points the moral that children, 
especially brothers and sisters, should not quarrel among themselves. The tale 
also foretells the sacrificing by the Skidi of a maiden. 
