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to get an advantage, the man would pull the Double-Faced-Monster 
back and would call his wife to make the fire burn and have plenty of 
wood on it, for he intended to throw the Double-Faced-Monster into 
the fire. They continued this pulling back and forth until morning, 
then parted. The husband and his wife began to travel again. About 
the middle of the afternoon they stopped to get plenty of wood, for 
they knew that the Double-Faced Monster would come again. At dark 
there came this same Double-Faced-Monster. They met and began to 
pull each other around, one pulling to the light, the other to the dark. 
The woman kept the fire burning all night, and whenever the wood 
began to burn out, the Double-Faced-Monster would begin to carry 
the husband a good distance from the fire. Then his wife would put 
some more wood on the fire, and when it commenced to burn they 
would come back to the light. They continued this until morning, 
then parted. Owner-of-Black-and-White-Flint-Knives was getting 
tired of this hard fighting, which had continued for three nights. Again 
they traveled, and there was two days’ journey yet to go, and the hus- 
band knew by the way his strength had been reduced that he would 
be carried off the next night. While they were on the way he began 
to tell his wife that perhaps she would have to go to her home alone, 
for he knew that he would be carried off; that she should not tell her 
son who his father was until he should get big enough, and then if he 
wanted to know, she should tell him that something had taken him 
away; that when he should call for playthings she should give him his 
elk horn bow, and arrows. They traveled all day, and stopped the same 
time as usual and commenced to bring wood and pile it up, getting 
ready for the fight. About dark the Double-Faced-Monster called to 
the Owner-of-Black-and-White-Flint-Knives to get ready for the fight, 
for he was coming again to take him. They again began the fight and 
the woman kept up the fire. When he would be taken off for a distance 
he would call for his wife to build the fire, and then he would come 
back with the Double-Faced-Monster. About daylight she began to 
run out of wood, so that the Double-Faced-Monster gained a little 
greater distance into the darkness, and when they came back they did 
not approach as close to the fire as usual. The strength of Owner-of- 
Black-and-White-Flint-Knives was becoming less, the wood was burn- 
ing out. When there was no more wood to make a fire Double-Faced- 
Monster took off the Owner-of-Black-and-White-Flint-Knives. His 
wife heard him calling to her to build up the fire; but there was no more 
wood, and then the daylight came and the woman was. alone. 
