Q2 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
That evening, when the man returned from the hunt, he found his 
wife dead, and thought that she must have disobeyed and looked at 
the man. He took his dead wife some distance away and laid her there 
for burial, but instead of burying her under the ground he laid her on 
top of the ground, and returned home. After he went home he heard 
the child crying somewhere, but could not find where the sound of the 
child’s crying came from. He finally succeeded in finding the young 
one. He nursed the young child, which was a boy. The only way he 
could nurse it was to give it fresh beef and let it suck it, and in that way 
he reared it. When the time came that he had to go out hunting he had 
to take the young child along with him, and there were times when he 
had to stay at home on account of the young child. But the child grew 
rapidly, and finally he got so big that he began to crawl around, and 
after a while he began to walk. Still the man would take the child along 
hunting. At last the boy was big enough to play by himself. The man 
then made a bow and arrows for him to play with, also a shinny ball 
and stick. This ball was what we call “ball-for-young-boys” (kasints- 
wiks). . 
After a while the man when going out on a hunt left the boy at 
home, for he knew that he was old enough to take care of himself. 
After the boy’s father left, while he was in the grass-lodge by himself, 
the boy heard some one coming around where he was. When the boy 
looked back ‘at the door there he saw a boy about his own age, who was 
calling him to come and have an arrow game with him. The game is 
called “shooting-a-small-plaited-sinew-on-the-fly” (liakucks). The 
strange boy won all of the arrows from the boy of the lodge. After 
the strange boy had won all of the lodge boy’s arrows he went off 
toward the river, and the lodge boy saw him going into the water. 
Before leaving, the strange boy told the lodge boy that they were 
brothers and that he should not tell their father regarding his coming 
-around. After the strange boy had left, the lodge boy began to wonder 
who the strange boy was who claimed that his father was also the father 
of the other boy. When the father came back that day he asked his 
boy what he had done with his arrows. The boy told him what his 
brother had instructed him to say if asked this question by his father. 
He said he had lost all of the arrows that he had given him and could 
not find them. His father then asked him if they both might not go 
and look for the arrows, but the boy refused to do so, and said that 
he knew that the arrows were lost and could not be found. So that 
evening the man began to make some more arrows for his son, and when 
he had finished them, gave them to him and told him not to lose them 
