THE DEEDS OF AFTER-BIRTH-BOY. 93 
as he had lost the rest of his arrows. When he should shoot he was to 
watch the arrow and see where it might go, for there was much trouble 
in making arrows. The next day the man went out on a hunting trip. 
After he had gone, the strange boy came again and asked his brother 
to come and have that same game with him again. They commenced 
to play, betting their arrows. All that day they played, until the 
strange boy won the game from his brother. The lodge boy was with- 
out arrows again. Before leaving, the strange boy said: “Do not 
tell your father that I have been here and won all of your arrows, but 
tell him that you lost them shooting birds.” The strange boy then left 
again, going toward the river, and the lodge boy watched to see where 
he would go. He saw him going into the water again, instead of going 
on dry land and living there. In the evening the boy’s father returned 
again from the hunt. When he arrived he asked his boy again what he 
had done with all his arrows. His boy repeated what he had been told 
to say, saying he had lost all of his arrows shooting birds. He said that 
he had been off a good long way, where he lost the arrows. The boy’s 
father again asked if they could not go over there and see if they could 
find the arrows, but the boy said he thought he had lost them for good, 
and they could not be found. After the boy said this, his father had to 
believe him, and at once started to make just as many arrows as the 
boy had before. } 
The boy’s father began to think there must be something wrong, 
for he did not understand how the boy could lose all his arrows in one 
day. On the next morning, after they had eaten their breakfast, the 
boy’s father went out hunting. He left the lodge boy at home. Every 
time he went out he would cook some meat for his son to eat while he 
was away. As soon as the boy’s father had gone the strange boy came 
around again and called the lodge boy out to play the arrow game 
with him, the same as they had always played. They again began to 
play their arrow game, and about noon the boy invited his brother to 
enter the lodge and have something to eat with him. They both went 
in and ate what the lodge boy had, and after they had eaten they com- 
menced to play again, until the visiting boy had won all the arrows 
from the lodge boy. After winning the arrows he repeated the same 
words that he always had said about what he should tell his father 
regarding the loss of his arrows. The strange boy started off again, 
going toward the water. He went into the water. The lodge boy 
now began to wonder how the strange boy could live in the water. He 
then decided to tell his father, so that they might attack the strange 
boy and make him stay with them instead of living in the water. He 
