98 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
Wind-the-Sun-rising-slowly-followed-by-clear-Weather. He set the. 
young bird back and told it that he was the kind of a child he wanted 
to see. He picked up the next one and asked what kind of a young bird 
it was. The young bird answered him, saying that he was a child of 
Hard-Windy-Weather-followed-by-hard - Rain - accompanied - by - Light- 
ning-that-strikes. After-birth-Boy threw the young bird off, and told it 
that it was a bad young bird. He then picked up the next one and 
asked it what sort of a young bird it was. The young one answered 
that it was the child of Quiet-Foggy-Day-Weather-such-as-comes-in- 
early-Morning. He then set the bird back and told it that it was a good 
child. Then he picked up the last one and asked it what sort of a child 
it was. The young one answered him, saying that he was a child of 
Cyclone-Weather. He threw this bird off and told it that it was a child 
that he had no use for. After-birth-Boy now began to slide down; for 
he could not climb down. When he came down he told his brother to 
get his arms and legs, for he could not move to get them himself. He 
ordered this brother to put on him the right arm first. Then he told 
his brother to put on his left leg. He ordered his brother to put on his 
left arm. Then he ordered his brother to get the right leg and place it 
in the right place. The brother obeyed, and the boy had on all his limbs 
again. The boys then started to their home, and on their arrival they 
found their father already home. Their father asked the boys why they 
had been late in coming. The boys told him they had been to the 
Thunderbird’s nest, where he had told them not to go. After-birth-Boy 
said he climbed the tree and had all his arms and legs pulled off by the 
Thunderbird, but that he reached the top, killed two of the young birds 
and saved two of them, as they were good young birds. Their father 
then began to think that he had a wonderful boy, and that he must have 
great powers, judging from what he had already done. 
Some time after they had been to the nest they started out shoot- 
ing birds, and while they were out they found a long stone lying on 
the ground, that was somewhat like the shape of a human being. After- 
birth-Boy told his brother that they must take this home, for their 
father to use in sharpening his knife. They carried it home. The boys 
reached home that day before their father came; the boys showed him 
what they had brought for him. Their father asked them where they 
had found the stone. The boys told where they had found it, and then 
the father told them to take it back,where they got it, for it was their 
mother. After their father had laid her away the woman had turned 
into stone. That evening the boys took the stone back where they 
had got it. 
