THE DEEDS OF AFTER-BIRTH-BOY. 95 
that After-birth-Boy was a wonderful boy and had great powers. That 
evening the man made some more arrows for his sons to play with the 
next day, that he might in some way capture After-birth-Boy. The 
next day he again put off his hunting trip. That morning A fter-birth- 
Boy came around and called his brother to come out to him and play 
the arrow game. The lodge boy went out to meet him and to have an 
arrow game, but before After-birth-Boy came their father hid himself 
behind the door, turning himself into a stem of grass. While they were 
playing, After-birth-Boy asked the lodge boy if their father had gone 
out on a hunt. The lodge boy said that he had. Again, at noon, the 
lodge boy began to beg After-birth-Boy to stop a while and rest and 
then eat before they played any more. After-birth-Boy was then wild, 
because they had tried to play a trick on him. He looked into the grass- 
lodge and found no one there. They entered and ate dinner. After 
dinner was over the lodge boy told After-birth-Boy that his head itched, 
and asked him to look into it and see if there were any lice there. 
After-birth-Boy then looked into the lodge boy’s head for a long time. 
When he got tired the lodge boy asked him to allow him to look in 
his head. The lodge boy got hold of After-birth-Boy’s head and looked 
into it, but instead of looking for lice, he began to tie his hair and 
tangle it up so that he might get a good hold when he called his father 
for help. Wihen After-birth-Boy was tired he would ask the lodge boy 
what he was doing, for the lodge boy was hurting him. Finally, when 
the lodge boy had got a good hold, he called to his father to come and 
help him, saying that he had a good hold. Just then After-birth-Boy 
jumped up and began to run, dragging the lodge boy. ,Their father got 
to them and they had a hard time holding After-birth-Boy. The lodge 
boy would beg After-birth-Boy to stop, saying he had always called 
him brother and he wanted him to live with them instead of visiting 
him. But After-birth-Boy kept dragging them toward the river, and 
then their father began to beg the boy to stop. Before they reached the 
river After-birth-Boy told the two to loose him for a while; that he 
was willing to live with them thereafter. After-birth-Boy was released 
and jumped into the river, and when he came out of the water both of 
his arms were full of arrows that he had won from the lodge boy. So 
they all went toward their grass-lodge to live together thereafter. 
The next day the boys’ father made a shinny ball and two sticks 
and some more arrows and a netted ring. When making the ring he told 
the boys not to roll it toward the west. He then forbade them to go to 
several places: Spider-Woman (Itsezgarhenegits), Thunderbird-that- 
had-a-Nest (Geleassegits), Double-Faced-Monster (Witschatska), 
