THE DEEDS OF AFTER-BIRTH-BOY. Q9 
The next day, after their father had gone out to hunt, After-birth- 
Boy asked his brother to come and go to the caves, where something 
that killed their mother was living, where their father had forbidden 
them to go. ‘The boys started on to this place, and they traveled all 
around the rough places, and finally came to the caves. There they 
found some young Double-Faced-Monsters. Upon entering the place 
the young ones tried to scratch them. When they scratched A fter-birth- 
Boy these young ones broke off their claws. When they scratched the 
other boy they would leave some blood streaks and suck their claws. 
The boys then noticed some things hanging in the cave. They asked 
what these things were. The young Double-Faced-Monsters said that 
they were their lungs and that if anything attacked their father and 
mother they would come out safe, for there were no lungs in them. 
After-birth-Boy then took one of his arrows and stuck one of the lungs 
with the point of an arrow. These were the largest ones, and when he 
stuck one the other one began to move, and the young ones said that 
that was their father’s lungs. Then he stuck another of the largest 
ones, and as soon as he had done so it stopped moving around. Then 
he commenced on the little ones, and whenever he stuck one, one of 
the young ones would fall to the ground. He kept on until he had killed 
every one of them but one, anid this one they saved for their father for 
a pet. They returned to their home, and on their arrival found their 
father. They presented the young Double-Faced-Monster to him and 
told him that they had been where he had forbidden them to go; that 
they had visited the Double-Faced-Monsters, and had killed all of them 
but the one that they had saved for him to keep for a pet. Their father 
then told them to take it back where they got it and turn it loose, for he 
did not want it. The boys took this young one back and turned it loose 
and returned home at once. 
It was several days before they took a notion to go off somewhere 
else, and when the time came they went out after their father had gone 
on a hunt. They took along their shinny ball, two sticks, bows and 
arrows, and at once started to where they were forbidden to go. On 
their way they saw some one standing a good way from them, who told 
them not to come near him, but the boys kept on until they came where 
he was. This man was the same man that their father had told about, 
the Headless-Man. ‘This man had a shinny stick and ball. He told 
the boys that. their lives would be taken, but first, they would have to 
play the shinny game, and if they should lose the game they would have 
to die. After-birth-Boy told the Headless-Man if he should lose his 
game he would have to die, too; and that at first they must use their 
ball instead of his. But the Headless-Man refused to do so, and said 
