86 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
She continued her journey alone and arrived at her home about 
noon. ‘The people were surprised to see her again, and greeted her 
with joy. She told her parents about her life among the strange peo- 
ple and how she was taken away; what sort of a man she had, and how 
he came to lose his life while on the way to her home. She then told 
her parents that she was pregnant, that when born the child should 
be called Young-Flint-Knife. Time soon passed and she began to 
prepare for her confinement. She told her parents to leave the place 
and allow her to stay alone until the child was born. When she was 
giving birth the child began to talk inside of her womb, asking to be 
allowed to come through her mouth, but the woman refused. She told 
him to come through the same place that all children came, but he said 
he did not want to. They kept arguing about this and finally she told 
him that by coming out of her mouth he might kill her; that he should 
hold his breath and come out. The child did, and there was born to 
the woman a boy, and it was named Young-Flint-Knife. When the 
child was born it did not need to be carried around like a young child, 
but sat down and called for something to eat. She gave him the black 
stone, then the white stone to eat, telling him that that was his food, 
and after he had eaten it she would nurse him. Day after day the child 
grew, and finally he began to hunt and shoot with his arrows, killing 
birds of all kinds, turkeys, and deer. He became a famous boy in 
every way. He had great powers, as his father had had, but he was 
not really like his father, for his food was like that of any other human 
being. When he grew older and of better mind, he began to ask who 
his father was, and what had become of him, and whether he was dead 
or living. As soon as his mother began to realize that he was fully 
grown, she told him that something had taken his father off while they 
were on the way to her home, and she told him where the place was 
where he had been carried away from her. Young-Flint-Knife then 
told his mother to grind enough meal for him to take along with him, 
and he would go and hunt for the being that had carried off his father. 
He started on the trip in search of his father. When he came to the 
place and found the trail of the Double-Faced-Monster he followed it. 
He kept traveling until he came to a deep canyon with steep sides. He 
looked down and saw that there was no way to get down. The sides 
of the canyon were smooth and perpendicular, so that it was impossible 
for any one to go down. He followed up the canyon, looking to see 
whether he could see anyone, until he came to where he could see but 
very little, and down there he saw a man getting water. From the 
description, he thought that the man was his father. He slid down the 
