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advance and find warriors dancing. Long-Tooth-Boy disguises himself, enters 
witch’s village, and takes buffalo hide, asking in which tipi old woman is hid. 
He sees his father sitting by witch, who recognizes him. He returns to his 
brother. The two go to gopher hill and throw up handful of earth, causing dust 
storm, in midst of which they enter tipi where their father is confined. There every- 
one has covered his head, and boys escape. In the night they re-enter lodge, find 
witch asleep, cut off her head, and take their father with them. The three bounce 
up and down in air old woman’s head, screaming. Returning home, Long-Tooth- 
Boy is about to scalp old woman, but begs that her head may be placed on pole 
outside of lodge where she is to remain and serve as sentinel. 
41. LONG-TOOTH-BOY. 
A man and his wife travel south and erect grass-lodge by creek. Woman 
is confined: after-birth is thrown into water. Shortly woman dies and boy is 
nourished by milk of animals. While absent, boy is visited by his brother born 
from after-birth. In attempting to capture after-birth boy man hides, but is 
detected by his odor. Next, he is covered up in hole, which he leaves and returns 
with two bladders blown up and containing rattles, one of which he directs his 
son to tie to the hair of his younger brother. Father now crawls from his hiding 
place and boy is capturedin water. They live together, but younger brother grows 
long teeth like those of beaver, with which he injures his father, whereupon with 
stone he files them down. Father warns them against visiting dangerous places. 
One day they go to Long-Tooth-Boy’s lodge, which was under water. Within 
lodge is sage floor, and bows and arrows which he has taken from his brother. 
He gives his brother one of two finely braided antelope hide strings, to one end 
of which is flint. They go to steep bank and are addressed by voice which tells 
them that it has devoured their father. Water monster is slain, as in preceding 
tale, except that fire is kindled inside monster, heat causing bladder to burst. 
Skin is taken home. Next, they visit snake’s den. They escape being bitten 
by standing upon flint stone, which increases its height. Snakes eject venom 
at boy, which he diverts by waving his flint stone. He shoots snake with 
his arrow, which flashes like lightning; Causing snake to burst with noise like 
thunder. Other snakes escape to their holes. Boys take skin home. They go to 
high hill, where they see boys sliding from its top on buffalo-rib sleds. They rub 
themselves with their magic stone. Boys kick the two brothers, but do not injure 
them. At bottom are many human skeletons. At next attempt the boys kick 
brothers on back over kidneys. The leader of the boys is spotted calf. They 
take its skin home. They go south to cedar timber, meet red_painted man with 
bear-claw necklace and carrying war club. Before he strikes boy he is ‘killed with 
arrow. Approaching, they find not man, but cinnamon bear, whereupon they tell 
bear to disperse, and take skin home. Next, they go to river, where old woman 
throws log across water, which when they start to cross stands up and grows into 
tree, and weather turns very cold. Long-Tooth-Boy blows his breath on his 
brother and he turns into snowbird. He also becomes bird and they fly to earth. 
They go to old woman’s lodge and in contest dance on side of precipice. She 
challenges elder boy to jump and he is killed at bottom. Long-Tooth-Boy dances 
with old woman. He jumps and lands safely, old woman following. As ‘she 
flies through air he blows his breath and her body falls on one side and her skin 
