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also wanted to find out from his father why this strange boy called him 
brother. The boy’s father arrived again, and when he asked the boy 
what he had done with all his arrows, the boy said to his father: 
“There is always some one around me, a boy about my age, who calls 
me ‘brother.’” The lodge boy then described the strange boy to his 
father. He told him that the strange boy had a wonderful tail that 
looked like a stick used for a poker, and that this boy was the one who 
won all of his arrows; that when the strange boy left he always went 
toward the river and got into the water; that he always called him 
“brother.” The boy’s father asked him if he had learned the strange 
boy’s name. He told his father that the strange boy called himself 
After-birth-Boy (Hawhiswiks). The boy’s father then began to think 
how the strange boy could live in the water, and why he called his 
son “brother,” and himself “father,” the same as his son. He then 
found out who the boy was and told his son that the strange boy 
was surely his brother; that the boy’s mother had been killed by some 
man; that he had left him (the lodge boy) in the lodge, and had 
taken the after-birth and perhaps thrown it in the water; that this, 
possibly, was the way the strange boy came to live in the water. The 
man then made some more arrows, and on the next day they ar- 
ranged to attack the strange boy and make him stay at home. On the 
next day, the man remained at home instead of going out hunting. He 
then instructed the lodge-boy, saying: “Go ahead and play the arrow 
game, and when the strange boy wins all the arrows I will be somewhere 
about the lodge. You must invite After-birth-Boy to come in with you 
and eat. Then get him to look in your head for bugs, then get him to - 
let you look in his head to see if there are any bugs; but let him look in 
your head first, so you can look in his head last. Then tie his hair up 
so that you can get a good hold when attacking him.” 
That morning After-birth-Boy came around again and called the 
lodge boy out to play with him. Their father then turned himself into 
a fire stick and lay down by the fireplace. The lodge boy went out and 
met After-birth-Boy, who called him “brother,” and they began to play 
the arrow game. After they had been playing the game a while the 
lodge boy made out that he was tired, and told After-birth-Boy to go 
into the lodge and rest a while and have something to eat. So they 
went into the lodge. As soon as they had entered the grass-lodge 
After-birth-Boy went right back out, and said to the lodge boy: “The 
old man, our father, is in the lodge. He has turned himself into a stick 
used for a poker.” After-birth-Boy then went out into the water and 
did not come back. ‘Their father then appeared and told the lodge boy 
