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your leg back again.’’ The young Beaver went out, dived into the 
water, and when it came back it had its leg on again. The boy was told to 
go home and to be ready to dive with the witch the next day. The old 
Beaver then gave the young man blue mud with which he was to daub 
himself all over. The boy went home and went to bed. 
’ Early in the morning Eyes-Wide-Open came and said, ‘‘ Young man, 
the old woman is ready to dive with you.” Then Eyes-Wide-Open 
cried through the village and told the people to go down to the stream 
of water; that the young man and the old woman were going to dive. 
When they arrived at the water the boy selected the west side and the old 
witch stood on the east side. They walked down to the water, waded 
in, and when they reached the middle of the stream they dived. As 
they dived the boy swam under and reached the lodge of the Beavers 
and entered it. As soon as he entered the lodge of the Beavers the old 
Beaver said: ‘‘My son, lie down and I will cut off your leg and boil it for 
your brother to eat.’’ The young Beaver lay down, his leg was cut off, 
put ina pot, and boiled. Then the old Beaver told the boy that while 
the pot was boiling he must lie down and sleep. The boy lay down and 
slept. The man told one of the Beavers to swim towards the bank and 
to watch and see when the old woman should come out from the water. 
The Beaver swam to the bank and sat under the grass which hung over 
the bank. The Beaver watched and watched. 
The old woman and the boy had dived in the morning. It was then 
in the afternoon and neither of them had come up. Towards evening 
the old woman thought to herself: ‘‘The boy must be drowned. I must 
come out of the water.’’ The old woman jumped out from the water. 
She began to straighten out her hair, and as she reached the bank she 
said: ‘‘The boy died under the water a long time ago and we must hunt 
for his body.’’ The people on the boy’s side said, ‘‘No, we must wait 
until the boy comes up from the water.’’ The Beaver came into the 
lodge and said, ‘‘The old woman is now standing on the bank.’’ The 
Beavers awoke the boy, gave him meat and he ate, and then the old 
Beaver threw the bone out of the lodge into the water and told the 
young Beaver to go and bring back the leg. The young Beaver went 
out, dived into the water, and when it returned it had its legs again. 
Then the boy was told to go out of the Beavers’ lodge, to swim to the 
middle of the stream and thenjump out. Hedidso. When the boy came 
up from the water there was a yell from the side of the boy, and the peo- 
ple began to kill the people who were on the side of the old woman. The 
people on the old witch’s side were all killed. The old witch was killed 
on the side of the bank and tramped in under the ground, and as the 
