198 TALES OF READY-TO-GIVE. 
The blind man again stirred the fire. The woman kept on singing till 
at last the man told the blind man to leave the lodge. The woman 
could not enter the lodge, for it was hot inside. The blind man came out 
and took his child, and the child stopped crying. Then the blind man 
said: ‘‘Go in and pick up my war club.’’ The woman went in and 
brought the club, though it was half burned away. 
She led her husband toward the east. For many days they went 
toward the east, until one day the blind man told his wife to lead him to a 
rocky place. She led him up a high hill. One side of the hill was very 
steep and rocky; the other side was covered with cedar trees. She said, 
‘‘Here is the place. There are many rocks on the bank and at the 
bottom.’’ ‘‘Put me on the edge of the bank,’’ said the man, ‘‘and let 
my legs hang down.’” The woman obeyed. ‘‘Now,’’ said he, “push me 
over, so that I shall fall over this steep bank.’’ The woman would not do 
it, for she thought that he wanted to die because he was blind. The man 
kept on begging her to push him over the bank before the sun should rise. 
The woman would not doit. Finally the man said, ‘‘Throw me over; 
then you go around the bank and you will see me again and I will meet 
you there.’’ 
The man did not want to tell her what he intended to do, but he had 
to tell her that much or she would not push him over. After he had told 
her she pushed him over. Then she took up her baby and went around 
the bank. Before she came to the end of the hill she saw her husband 
coming up from a thick cedar tree. He had his coyote robe and also the 
scalp leggings. ‘‘I am here,’’ he said. ‘‘Go to my brother’s house and 
wait there for me. I am now going west to that being who burned my 
eyes out, and I am going to kill him. When some night you see meteors 
flying through the sky you may know that I have killed him.’’ 
They parted and the woman went to her brother-in-law’s tipi and 
told him all. Her brother-in-law was glad, and said: ‘‘Let us now go to 
your people and let them know that you have come back.’’ They went 
to her home. The woman then told her brother-in-law to go back to his 
home and wait for his brother. The boy went back to his tipi. One 
night the people saw fire flying through the sky, and the woman told 
them that her husband had killed her uncle, the Fire-Keeper. 
When the young man approached the tipi of the Fire-Keeper, he 
was sitting at the entrance watching, for he knew that the young man 
had powers and he feared him. Instead of going to the entrance to 
attack him the young man turned himself into a hawk, and he flew into 
the top of the tipi, and flying swiftly downward struck the Fire-Keeper 
upon the head and killed him. Then the Hawk turned into a human 
