SPIDERS WHO RECOVERED THE CHIEF'S GRANDSON. Lhé 
his child in the water, and that he was standing there watching his 
child, and that he would remain by the bank for all time. He said that 
for generations after generations thereafter, when he should be seen 
standing by the banks of the water, it would be known that he was still 
watching his child under the water. So ‘he never again returned to his 
former home. - Man-having-greater-Powers-than-any-other-Man then 
became Stick-standing-on-the-Bank (Hakeikouwi), or the Flamingo. 
The news was carried back to his wives. After the news had 
reached the home of the chief, then the chief called all the people of the 
village to assemble at ‘this home to hear what he had to say. The crowd 
began to rush to the chief’s lodge to hear the chief’s talk. When every- 
body was present it was made known to the chief that all the people 
in the village had assembled. He then made his talk, telling them that 
all the people had lived happily during all the times, but now, since 
his troubles had come and he had lost his grandchild, he wanted to 
become something else. He told all his friends that they could do as 
they wished. Everybody went off; some became fowls of the air, and 
some wild animals, and some remained as human beings. 
25. THE SPIDERS WHO RECOVERED THE CHIEF’S GRANDSON.* 
There were once two villages that were separated by a street ex- 
tending north and south; and in these villages were two chiefs, who had 
great multitudes of people. These chiefs, like the people, made their 
living by raising crops of corn and hunting for their meat, and were in 
the habit of sending out war-parties. The chief on the east side of the 
street had a full-grown son, while the chief on the west side had a 
daughter; and both the son and the daughter refused to marry among 
the young people of his or her own village. The young people in 
chiefs’ families like these were in the habit of having a sleeping place 
outside of the main lodge of their parents; this was fixed up with four 
tall upright forked poles and two long poles laid across in their forks, 
with plaited willows across the horizontals to make the structure solid; 
then they had sewed together enough tanned buffalo hides to cover the 
place, and they entered by means of a high ladder. When the children 
had gone to bed the parents would remove the ladder, so as to keep 
anyone from getting up to the bed. , 
*Told by Ahahe (Waco). 
