THE BASKET GAME, OR THE WOMAN IN THE MOON. 235 
The boys went out of sight of the lodge and when they returned they 
had white clay over their bodies and also over their faces. They had little 
black streaks extending downward from their eyes. They got down on 
their feet and the old woman began to sing. Now, close to the place 
where they were jumping up and down there was a steep bank where 
the old woman would jump up and down with people and there she 
would push them over. They would fall over this steep bank and 
be killed. Now, it was at this place that they were jumping. The old 
woman began to sing about the storms, the snow, the blizzard, and the 
black clouds. Then she sawthat she could not kill the boys by the wind- 
storms. She then changed her song, and the storms disappeared and the 
sun came out. When the snowstorm was there where they were danc- 
ing the two boys turned into snowbirds. When the storm was gone and 
the sun came out the boys turned into larks. The old woman saw 
_ that she could not do anything with the boys. Then she gave up and 
said: ‘‘Let us go into the lodge and I will give you my daughters. I will 
also give you something to eat.’’ The older boy, however, said: ‘‘No, 
we must keep up this game. Let me do the singing now and you 
dance.’”’ Then the boy began to sing: 
I like yonder coming, 
I like yonder coming, 
The blizzard and snow drifts, yonder coming, 
Yonder coming, far away. 
I like yonder coming, 
I like yonder coming, 
The stormy clouds, yonder coming, 
Yonder coming, far away. 
I like yonder coming, 
I like yonder coming, 
The stormy black clouds, yonder coming, 
Yonder coming, far away. 
As he sang these songs it all happened. The blizzard came and the 
woman nearly froze to death, while the boys jumped up and down like 
snowbirds. But as she had power to bring the snowstorm she did not 
freeze. Then the boy changed the song and said, “I like it when comes 
out and it gets hot.” 
I like yonder coming, 
I like yonder coming, 
The boiling heat, yonder coming, 
Yonder coming, far away. 
The sun did come out, and it was boiling hot. The old woman began 
to cry out and say: ‘“‘Let us stop. It is getting too hot.’’ The old 
