THE THUNDERBIRD AND THE WATER-MONSTER. 105 
all the stones upon it they again piled wood on top of them and then 
everything was ready but the fire. One of the boys went back home to 
bring a burning stick and at once started back to the lake. On the boy’s 
arrival he set the wood on fire and it began to burn. After the stones 
were heated red hot they took them and threw all of them into the water, 
then returned to their home and told the old man about it. On the 
next day the old man told the boys to go back to the lake and see what 
had been done there. The boys went on toward the lake, and on 
their arrival there they found the lake all dried up, and there they saw 
the water-monster. They again turned back to their home and reported 
to their grandfather regarding the water-monster. Then all went down 
to the lake and cut up the monster, and inside the monster they found 
the bones of the Thunderbird. They took all the bones, examined them, 
and found on the bones of the fingers a small piece of flesh. Then the 
old man told the boys that this must be the thing that was doing the 
singing, for there was still life in the hand. They then took the bones 
home. When they reached home the old man told his wife to build a 
small grass-lodge, big enough for the man to stand inside of it. The old 
woman at once began to work on this as the old man had requested her 
to do. Next day the old man took the bones of this man and put them 
all in their places, and after so doing set the lodge on fire. When the 
lodge commenced to burn the old man hallooed to the Thunderbird 
and told him to get out of the lodge, for it was on fire. Then he hallooed 
the second time, the third and fourth time, and at the fourth time 
there came out from the burning lodge the Thunderbird, his bow and 
arrow with him, and he was the same as he ever had been. 
When the Thunderbird ‘got out of the burning lodge the first thing 
he asked was, where the people had gone who used to live in the village. 
They told him that the whole village had left and that some had left 
the village happy, and some mourning for him. After this they all 
went into the lodge and the Thunderbird was given something to eat. 
After he had eaten he went out hunting, and the following day he killed 
a buffalo and brought it home with him, and it was as much as he 
could haul. He went on back to where he was staying, and late in the 
evening arrived at the place with the meat, and the people had plenty 
of meat to eat this time. The Thunderbird then told him that he had 
left some of the meat hanging in a tree, and that on the next day he 
should go hunting he wanted the boys to go with him and bring home 
the rest of the meat, while he should go on to hunt some more. So on the 
next day he and the boys went out to the place where he had left the 
meat, and on their arrival at the place they took the meat and brought 
