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be seen, and finally the whole thing was gone. After this, everybody 
left the shore of the lake and went to their homes. Some were glad to 
see the Thunderbird drown, for they hated him, but there were some 
who regretted it and wept bitterly for the loss of their chief. There 
was the Coyote alone when his uncle had lost his life for his sake, the 
Coyote having begged him to go along to see the hand-game. On the 
next day most of the people left the village to go somewhere else to 
make their homes, and finally everybody left their former village and 
followed the rest of the people. 
In this village were left an old man, old woman, and their grand- 
children. For a long time these folks lived ‘here alone. The boys would 
go around the village into other grass-lodges and look for things that 
had been left by the people who had left their homes, and would go 
around the lake and shoot birds, which was their way of having fun. 
Once upon a time, when these boys were around the lake they heard 
some one singing, but did not know for certain where the sound came 
from. They stood around to catch the sound and find out where the 
singing was. When they could not locate the sound, they left the lake 
and turned back to their home. They told their grandfather and 
grandmother about the singing they had heard, and the old man sat 
there, thinking what it could have been, till finally it came to him. He 
asked the boys where they had been. They told him that they were 
near the lake. Then he told them there was some one who was known 
to have lost his life in the lake; that the person was the Thunderbird, 
who had been a great chief and a man of good character; that he had 
been to a hand-game, was seated on something that was covered up, and 
when ‘he came to try to get up he found that he was stuck to a water- 
monster so that he could not get off, while the monster moved off into 
the lake and he was drowned; that he must be the one who was doing 
the singing. So ‘he told the boys that if there was still any flesh on that 
man there was life in him; that they should again go over to the lake 
and bring rocks to the shore and get plenty of them, too, and after so 
doing they should pile the rocks up and haul plenty of wood; that they 
should pile the wood on the bottom and some on the top, and after that 
should burn the wood; that when this was all burned up they should 
throw all the stones into the water. The boys went to the lake the next 
day, and there was by the lake a small hill, and from this place they 
carried stones all the following day, and after they thought they had 
stones enough they hauled plenty of wood to the shore where they had 
piled the stones. After they thought they had enough wood they spread 
it on the ground, piled the stonesyon top of it, and after they had put 
