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11. OWNER-OF-BLACK-AND-WHITE-FLINT-KNIVES AND HIS SON.* 
In olden times some of the people lived in villages and some out 
by themselves. There was a family, father, mother, and daughter, 
who dived out by themselves. The old man made his living by hunt- 
ing game, buffalo, deer, turkey, etc. The woman hauled the wood and 
did the work which fell to the women to do. One time she went out 
in the timber after wood, and when she had tied the wood with buffalo 
rope and was all ready to go home, she sat down, and was about to 
rise on her feet when she saw an arrow in the ground in front of her. 
As she was about to pick it up she saw some one coming, who said 
that the arrow was his. He was a fine-looking young man. His name 
was Owner-of-Black-and-White-Flint-Knives (Dahaacutsnaatiah). He 
told her to give up the arrow, but she refused to give it up, and the 
young man started back toward the west, where he had come from. 
The young woman followed him, asking him to stop and get his arrow, 
but he kept on, and the woman followed him. They went a good way 
from where she was putting up the wood, when the man finally stopped 
and she gave him his arrow. Then she discovered that she could not 
turn back, the young man having charmed her. Finally darkness came, 
and they stopped for the night. They built a fire and ate some meat. 
When they retired the young man told the woman to lie down by her- 
self, and he lay down by himself. Early the next morning, they started 
again, and traveled all that day, until darkness overtook them, and 
they camped again for the night. This time the woman thought that 
she was to sleep with the man. When bedtime came the man told the 
woman to lie down on one side of the fire. On the next day they 
started again, traveling until darkness overtook them. They stopped 
to rest for the night. By this time, the woman had given up all hope 
of ever sleeping with the man. They built a fire, ate supper and went 
to sleep, the woman sleeping in one place and the man sleeping in an- 
other. In the morning after breakfast, they started, and traveled all 
day, and finally arrived at the home of the man. 
The woman now saw the young man’s mother and four sisters. 
The young man asked for something to eat, and they gave him some 
meat. His sisters also ate the same kind of meat. When the woman’s 
supper time came the old woman gave her some buffalo meat and some 
parched corn. The strange woman thought that she would sleep with 
the young man’s mother. She went to bed with the old woman. Next 
morning all ate breakfast and the young woman noticed that they had 
*Told by Ahahe (Waco), 
