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woman tried to stop, but she could not, for some unknown power was 
making her jump up and down and she was being lifted from the ground. 
Then the boy sang: 
I like yonder coming, 
I like yonder coming, 
The swarm of grasshoppers, yonder coming, 
Yonder coming, far away. 
I like yonder coming, 
_ I like yonder coming, 
The swarm of grasshoppers now arriving, 
Yonder coming, far away. 
As he sang the song a swarm of grasshoppers flew down and began to 
circle around the old woman. They flew all around her and under her 
feet, and they began to lift the old woman up. The boys kept on 
singing: 
I like yonder coming, 
I like yonder coming, 
The swarm of grasshoppers upwards flying, 
Yonder coming, far away. 
Spider-Woman begged the boys to stop singing, but they did not 
listen to her. Spider-Woman tried to fight the grasshoppers with her 
hands, but she could not keep them off. Finally she took her dress off 
and she began to whip at the grasshoppers. At last she gave out and the 
grasshoppers carried her up into the sky. When they arrived at the moon, 
they placed the old woman in it, and there she was left to stay for all 
time. That is why we see something hanging from the moon. It is the 
old woman’s dress. The grasshoppers then flew from the moon to the 
sun and there they swarm around the sun. This is why we see a swarm 
of grasshoppers flying around the sun in the summer time. 
74. THE GIRL, SPIDER-WOMAN, AND THE BALL GAME.’ 
A man and his niece lived alone far away from other people. The 
man was lame and could not move around very much because his feet 
and his knees were swollen. Notwithstanding his lameness he would 
disappear every day. The girl did not know where he went or how. 
Sometimes he never came back until late at night, and she grew pro- 
voked at him. She told him that he should stay at home, and that he 
should not go so far away; that if she got into trouble he could not run to 
_1Told by Sun-Chief, Skidi. The story especially serves as a warning to the 
children not to wander far away from home lest they be captured by some super- 
natural being of vile influence. 
