THE GAMBLER AND THE GAMING STICKS. IgI 
Then the boy stopped and sang: 
Come now, stand up, 
You are the gambler, 
Come now, stand up. 
Why do you sit down? 
You are the gambler, 
Come now, stand up. 
Now arise, stand up, 
Now arise, stand up. 
You are the gambler, 
You are the gambler, 
Now arise, stand up. 
When the boy sang about the man being a gambler, he arose and said: 
“‘It is true; I am a gambler.’’ Then he arose and again they threw the 
sticks. When they threw their sticks for the last time, the sticks and 
the ring turned into buffalo and ran away. Assoon as the gambler was 
beaten the people who were on the boy’s side took up their sticks and | 
beat the gambler and his wife and children and the witch and Coyote 
until they were all dead. They all rejoiced because the wicked people 
were killed and could no longer put fine young men to death. 
52. YOUNG HAWK HUNTS FOR HIS MOTHER.’ 
There lived in the country a Hawk, his wife, and child. The man 
was a great warrior. He never was at home. One time while he was 
away, and the child was gone, the woman disappeared. The boy began 
to cry and look for his mother. After awhile the boy found a passage in 
the ground. He went into the ground and traveled in the under-world. 
He came to a village and stood nearit. He began to sing. 
I am hunting my mother. 
Her name is 
Woman-Knows-Everything. 
Yonder village there. 
I am hunting my father. 
His name is 
Handsome Hawk. 
Yonder village there. 
My name is, 
My name is 
Young Hawk, who lives among the people. 
Yonder village there. 
The people in the village turned out and said: ‘‘Listen to the boy 
singing.”” When they heard what the boy said in the song, they sent 
1Told by White-Eagle, Skidi. This story explains the source of the power of 
certain hawks over snakes, and why they take their name, snake hawks. 
