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noises again. He did not pay any attention to them, but soon he heard 
a loud noise which seemed to come from the timbered country. He 
became scared and trembled. He thought, ‘‘Must I run?” Again he 
looked at the stone and he saw the green light, and again his fear went 
from him. He heard the noise again, and as it sounded louder and nearer 
he opened his eyes to see what the thing was that was making it. He 
thought that it was a white-legged horse. When he looked at the stone 
again, he saw that it gavea bright light. Then the noise stopped, and 
there stood beforehim aman. The light shone so brightly from the stone 
that he could see the man plainly. The strange man had a bear robe over 
his shoulder. Around his ankles were bears’ claws. His face was painted 
red. From his mouth two tusks stuck out, and when the strange being 
breathed different colored dusts seemed to cover the stone; but the stone’s 
light seemed to dispel the dust. The strange man then said: ‘‘My son, 
upon this mound is my lodge. I live here with many of my children. 
I go and kill all kinds of animals and people. You come here upon this 
mound with thestone, and I do not like it, for the stone is from the heavens. 
It will bring rain and lightning, and it will kill my children.’’ The man 
closed his eyes and cried with a loud cry. The light went out. The 
strange man turned into a Bear and trotted away. The strange noise 
continued all night. The morning was cloudy. All day the clouds 
seemed to roll as if in madness. They rolled about in the heavens, but 
there was no lightning or thunder. The man thought that the time was 
near for it to thunder, and that his dream was tocome true. So he took 
new courage. 
Towards evening he looked and saw another, darker cloud coming 
from the west. He heard sharp thunders and saw lightning that seemed 
to be making its way to where he was standing. He heard drumming, 
the rubbing of sticks, the sound of geese, and the howling of coyotes and 
bears. The clouds from the west seemed to come rapidly, for he now 
heard thunder overhead. He tried to close his eyes, but the flashing of 
the lightning opened them. Soon the rain poured down. A noise went 
by the man that sounded like a hailstorm. Presently his eyes were 
opened by the lightning. Then it thundered. He thought he saw the 
lightning strike the ground, for there was fire and smoke upon the bank 
of the river. Again and again it lightened and struck at the same place. 
Soon the storm seemed to encircle the man and the lightning struck 
him down. The storm passed away, and the sky cleared; the man 
lay stunned. As he lay there he saw a man whom he knew to be the 
Stone-Man. The man said: ‘‘My son, all I have told you to do, you have 
done. The animals who dwell upon this mound wanted to scare you 
