EARLY-MORNING-DEER-SLAYER. 231 
While on the way, this animal spoke out, saying that he had been 
away a good while, and that he expected his children would be pretty 
hungry; then he would increase his speed and leave the four men away 
behind; then he would stop, and the four men would catch up again. 
Now Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer saw a high point in the direction 
they were going, and the four men following also saw it. When the 
animal got pretty near to the high place he made one run, saying that 
his children must be pretty hungry. When the animal and Early- 
Morning~Deer-Slayer reached the high place the four men could hardly 
see them. There, in a great, big cave, lived Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer 
with his children, the Buzzards. Arriving at this place, the Elk stooped 
down to dump Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer off, when Early-Morning 
Deer-Slayer kicked the animal in the back of the head, and down they 
both went. There is no telling how deep this cave was, but on his way 
down the animal’s children would eat a person up before he came to the 
bottom. As they went down the cave, the Elk was first, and Early- 
Morning-Deer-Slayer was behind, so that the Elk was eaten by the 
children. When Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer was about half way down 
he got hold of the root of a tree, and there he held fast. When the 
four other men arrived at the cave they all looked down, and there 
was Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer, hanging onto the root. They said to 
him: “You hhave powers to do anything, so make haste and save your- 
self!” Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer told the men to dig a hole where 
they were, big enough for them to lie in. When they had dug the hole, 
Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer took his bow-string and swung it over his 
head and caused thé wind to blow from the north. When the wind 
blew, it threw him nearly out of the place. Again he swung his bow- 
string over his head and the wind blew harder, until it finally blew him 
out of the place; then it stopped blowing. The men got out of their 
places and looked down in the cave to see whether Early-Morning-Deer- 
Slayer was still there, but he was gone. The four men started on the 
trail of the wind, and here they found Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer. 
When they had gathered around him they asked if he was tired, 
and he answered that he was not tired, but that he would return to the 
place he was brought from. He asked the man from the first village 
if he wanted to go back, but the man answered that it was too far to go 
back. So Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer took him up, and threw him in 
a way which caused the man to fly, and he became a small Sparrow 
(Ichinekats). Then Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer asked the man from 
the second village if he wanted to go back, and the man said he did not, 
and that it was too far. Early-Morning-Deer-Slayer took him and 
