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then called his brother to come where he was, and when the boy went 
where his brother was he shot up into the sky two arrows, by means of 
which they climbed up into the sky to be with their father. These 
two boys were great boys to do all sorts of things that were super- 
natural, but they were but young boys, especially After-birth-Boy, who 
was known to have been raised in the water. These boys were the ones 
who killed all the meanest things that lived in those times. After they 
had gone up into the sky the whole of the story of After-birth-Boy 
and his brother ends. 
13. THE THUNDERBIRD AND THE WATER-MONSTER.* 
There was once a village that had’two chiefs. They had a sort of 
division line between them. On the east side, the Thunderbird 
(Kitihakuts) was chief, but no one remembers who was chief of the 
west side. The Thunderbird had a good character and everybody 
thought well of him, though there were a few people who wished to do 
him wrong and hated him in every way. In those times the people who 
had evil thoughts were called Evil-Spirited-Persons (Naaniawacadiki). 
In this place there were played all kinds of games, and they wagered 
the life of a person, the winner taking the life of the loser. In the 
Thunderbird’s village there lived the Coyote (Ketox), who was nephew 
to the chief. Once in a while the Coyote would go and see the hand- 
game played by some of the people, and expected to beat them playing. 
The hand-game was the gambling game of the people of these times, 
and the wager was generally large, as they bet their lives and weapons. 
Whenever the Coyote went to see the game the chief would beg him to 
bring along his uncle the next time he came, and on his return the 
Coyote would ask his uncle to go along with him the next time he 
should go; but his uncle would refuse to do so, for he knew that it was 
a dangerous place to go, for the people in the place were seeking in 
some way to do him wrong. 
The Thunderbird was a great hunter, and the things he hunted 
were the ones that hated him. The Coyote continued to go and see the 
hand-game played, and every time he went the chief would ask him 
why he had not brought his uncle along. So every time the Coyote 
came back from the hand-game he would tell his uncle what the people 
had said regarding him, but his uncle would say it was a place to lose 
one’s life cheap. Once upon a time the Coyote asked his uncle again 
to go along with him to see the game. The Thunderbird said to his 
*Told by Ahahe (Waco). 
