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that she should then go to a place where there was a small hill, where 
she would see a little boy; that she should beg the boy to save her life, 
for this little boy’s people had great power. After the woman had 
lighted on her feet, she ran along for a way, and then took the stick 
and tossed the double-ball towards the place where she was going. 
(In these times the double-ball would ‘go a long way. They were used 
by women traveling.) When she tossed the double-ball she went with 
it up in the air. 
The old woman now called for her son and told him of the 
young woman’s escape. (The man had great power, to hear a long 
way off.) Then the old woman took a club and killed herself. When 
the man came home he saw his mother lying on the ground, dead. 
He made a circuit around the place, looking for the young woman’s 
trail, then he went back again to the place where his mother was lying 
dead. He looked and looked, and wondered which way his prisoner 
had gone, and then went around the place again, always a little way 
off, to look for ther trail. Mixed-Timber at last found her trail. While 
on the way, she could hear him talking, saying, “I will get you. You 
need not think you are going to get away from me.” When he came 
to the place where she tossed the balls, he lost the trail again, and 
there he would have to spend some time in looking for it. Then 
the woman would light on her feet and go on the ground for a while, 
and when she gave out again, she would use the double-ball. She 
tossed the double-ball four times, and then went on the ground for a 
while, until she came to the place where she was told to go. When 
she tossed the double-ball for the last time she could just barely see 
the place where she was going. Every time she tossed the ball the 
man would lose her trail, but she could always hear him talking. After 
getting on her feet she had to run a long way, but finally came to the 
river, where she went along the bank, looking for a certain person to 
take her across the river. She finally found the one she was looking 
for, and this was a Crane (Hakeakawi). The Crane stretched his 
neck across the water, so the woman could walk across. She told the 
Crane not to let the man cross over, but the Crane told the woman if 
he did not he would be killed. He also told the woman the same thing 
the old woman had told her, and so she went to the point, and there 
she found a boy walking around. His name was Big-Belly-Boy 
(Wikskatsitawaks). She begged him to save her life. She told him 
some one was after her to kill her. The boy still continued to go around. 
At this time Mixed-Timber came in sight of her, and he was telling 
the boy not to listen to her, but she begged the boy to save her life 
