226 TALES OF READY-TO-GIVE. 
The boy had a brother at home who was the very image of the one who 
was killed. He went to the village hunting for his brother. When he 
arrived, Eyes-Wide-Open invited him to the lodge of the old woman. 
When the boy entered he saw his brother’s head among the skulls. The 
woman said: ‘‘My grandson, I want you to dive with me to-morrow. 
If you come out first, I will take your life. If I come out first, you shall 
take my life and the lives of all my people.’’ The boy then said: “‘I am 
willing to do this if the chief and his people will be on my side.”’ The 
old woman sent Eyes-Wide-Open to the chief and asked him if he and his 
people would be on-the boy’s side. The chief said that he would. 
That night the boyasked the chief where the old woman had her place 
for the diving. The chief told the boy where the place was. The chief 
went home and left the boy at the place. The boy then stood upon the 
banks of the water and cried. A little Beaver came up from the water 
and asked the boy what he was crying about. The boy said: “I am 
crying because I have to dive with the old woman. This woman has 
killed many young men who visited the village.’’ The little Beaver then 
told the boy to stay there, as he was going to see his father and mother. 
The little Beaver dived and went into his lodge and told his father and 
mother that there was a fine-looking young man upon the bank crying 
because he was going to dive with the old woman. The father said to 
the young Beaver, ‘‘My son, what can we do for this boy?”” The young 
Beaver said: ‘“‘Let us take pity upon him and help him, so that this old 
witch shall be killed and there shall be no more of her kind in the land.”’ 
The Beaver said that he would. Then the young Beaver was told to go 
and invite the boy. 
The little Beaver came out of the water and said, ‘‘My brother, fol- 
low me, and then whateverI do, you doalso.’’ The Beaver dived into the 
water. The boy followed, and he soon found himself in the lodge of 
the Beavers. Then the Beavers told the boy that they had decided to 
take pity upon him and were going to help him kill this old woman. The 
Beaver then told the boy that when he should dive, he should select the 
place on the west side, and as soon as he dived he should swim up to the 
lodge and enter it. There they would keep him as long as the woman 
remained under the water. The boy was thankful. The old Beaver 
said to the young Beaver, ‘‘Lie down while I cut your leg off.’’ The 
young Beaver lay down and his leg was cut off. It was placed in a pot 
and boiled, and after the meat was cooked they took it out and fed the boy 
with the meat of the leg of the Beaver. When the boy ate of the leg the 
old Beaver took the bone of the leg and threw it outside of the lodge into 
the water; then the old Beaver said to the young Beaver, ‘‘Go and bring 
